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Notes on Some Inscriptions from Kalyvia Sokhas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
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I have read with great interest and profit Mr. J. M. Cook's admirably full and lucid account (BSA XLV 261 ff.) of the operations conducted by him at Kalyvia Sokhas, three or four miles south of Sparta, in November, 1949. It recalled to mind my first visit to the site, in company with Mr. R. Carr Bosanquet, then Director of the British School, in December, 1903, in the course of a preliminary survey of Sparta and its neighbourhood with a view to the commencement of serious work by the School in the following year. It also revived the memory of the occasion when, at the close of July, 1904, I left Sparta, alone and on foot, before dawn, breakfasted with hospitable friends at Kalyvia, and climbed thence to the peak of Taÿgetus, where I spent a sleepless but memorable night, tramping back to Sparta via Kalyvia on the following day through sweltering heat and stifling dust.
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1 Cf. 33.2, 359.3, 609.4 ([κ]λεονικὶδα) In Messenia we find κλεονὶκης (1366) and κλεὸνικος (1385.7).
2 Cf. Lycophron, Alexandra 698 ῾Οβριμοῦς τ᾿ ἂλσος κὸρης, and the scholiast ad loc. ῾Οβριμὼ ἠ Περοεφὸνη παρὰ τὸ ὂβρομον καὶ βαρὺ
3 This view I stated in JHS XXXIV 62; Bourguet accepts it without discussion (op. cit. 118).
4 The name Λεὸβριμος registered by Bechtel (Hist. Personennamen, 276, 343; cf. SGDI 5345 (13)) is not quite certain, resting only on the evidence of IG XII (9). 56.117, 240; Roehl (IGA 372. 111, 223) and Ziebarth wrote Λεὼβριμος
5 Another possible example is Cook, p. 275, for which see below.
6 The use of the aorist participle here, as contrasted with the perfect (ὰπισαλιτευκυῖα) of the dedication on p. 266, suggests the meaning ‘retired’ rather than Cook's ‘retiring’.
7 The ᾿Ετυ[μοκλῆς] restored in 604 is, as we have seen, an error.
8 Mr. Cook, who has kindly read the present article in manuscript, reports that, though the letters are very badly worn, a careful re-examination of the squeeze shows that Ω is certainly as likely as Ο, if not rather more so, as the penultimate letter of the name.
9 Though 364 also contains ritual regulations, it is engraved on a marble seat and so cannot be part of the same inscription.
10 Hsch. κεκροφὰλους τοὺς τῶν ὶππων κορυφαοτῆρας καὶ κορυφὰντους (such is the MS. reading).
11 I prefer Kolbe's ξενοκρὰτιαν (i.e. 
) to Cook's ξενοκρατὶαν Cook's text would have been easier to follow had he inserted commas in l.5 before τὴν, in l.7 after [ὰμ]φωτὲρων and in l. 11 before προσ-. I do not know why he inserts a question-mark in l. 9 after οἰκείας, as the word is sufficiently attested by 584.9.