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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
‘Es ist das schoene Vorrecht der historischen Forschung, die Verstorbenen in der Erinnerung der Nachwelt wieder aufleben zu lassen. Erscheint es billig, dass die Namen derer, welche sich hohe Verdienste um ihr Volk erworben, der Vergessenheit nicht anheimfallen, so ist es menschlich, denen überhaupt nachzuforschen, welche einst in weiten Kreisen von der Mit- und Nachwelt genannt und gefeiert worden sind.’
With these words, used by Dr. Koehler in regard to the once famous ‘condottiere,’ Diogenes, in the third century B.C., I beg to introduce to the reader a personage who, although perhaps of limited interest, was once celebrated and powerful and had the honour of calling himself the friend of Julius Caesar. His son moreover did his best to prevent a deed, the failure of which would probably have changed the direction of the history of the world,—the murder of Caesar.
The passages in ancient writers which relate to the man of whom I speak are well known, but they have not hitherto been rightly connected with one another, or thoroughly understood.
page 286 note 1 Hermes, vii. p. 1.
page 287 note 1 Ad Atticum XIII. 7, 1. Sestius apud me fuit et Theopompus pridie; venisse a Caesare narrabat litteras, hoc scribere, sibi certum esse Romae manere etc.
page 288 note 1 The form Μάαρκος was formerly regarded as pointing to a period between 620 and 680 A. U. C. But Mommsen has established the use of this form from the time of Hannibal to that of Augustus, . Ephem. Epigr. I. 1872, p. 286, foll.Google Scholar
page 288 note 2 The word ὁ δῆμος, which is wanted in line 1, must have been written on an upper part of the pedestal now lost.
page 288 note 3 Revue archéologique, 1866, xiii. p. 157, 9.
page 289 note 1 That he was very well known is proved too by the omission of the ethnic in the Rhodian inscription, in spite of his being a Cnidian and not a native of Rhodes. M. Foucart l. l. presumed already that such services as we have traced had been performed by Theopompus.
page 289 note 2 Even Drumann, as far as I can see, does not mention Theopompus.
page 290 note 1 Mr. Dubois has published a mutilated inscription from Cnidus, which now exists in the island of Nisyros; it is not impossible that this part of a decree belongs too to our family. Bulletin de Corresp. Hellén. vii. p. 485.
page 290 note 2 Mr. Newton found at Cnidus an inscription, where it is open to question whether the words 
refer to Theopompus or Artemidorus (Discov. p. 760, n. 47).
