Tor-Mohun.
[Peter Foley, Esq., succeeded Sir John Trevor, March 14, 1694. Sir Thomas Littleton, Bart., was chosen the next Speaker, December 3, 1698.]
Replies.
INSCRIPTIONS IN BOOKS.
(Vol. vii. passim.)
Under this head the following translation of part of the inscription at Behistun may be classed. It is, I apprehend, the earliest of this sort of inscription:
"Darius rex dicit: si hanc tabulam, hasque effigies spectas, et iis injuriam facias, et quamdiu tibi proles sit non eas conserves, Oromasdes hostis fiat tibi, et tibi proles non sit, et quod facias id tibi Oromasdes frustretur."
See Rawlinson's "Translation of the Great Persian Inscription at Behistun," par. 17. Asiatic Society's Transactions.