. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. v 7rpO(rr)yoplav (^j)K£ and Pbot. Epuai. Chai. XII.] ST. PAUL AT ATI!ESS. [ 51] They are inscribed with moral sentences for the edification of the wayfarer, andsome are as okl as Hipparchus, the brother of Hippias the tyrant, for on one of themwe read, The gift of Hipparchns: Go and think no ill; and on another, Thegift of Hipparchus: Never betray thy The Mercuries serve also asdirection posts; for when a single road, as Yesta Street, branches off from theCeramicus, there stands at the corner a three-faced Janus, with the thr
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