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59I myself too once saw Cadmeian characters in the temple of Ismenian Apollo at Thebes of the Boeotians, engraved on certain[49a] tripods, and in most respects resembling the Ionic letters: one of these tripods has the inscription,
"Me Amphitryon offered from land Teleboian returning:"[50]
this inscription would be of an age contemporary with Laïos the son of Labdacos, the son of Polydoros, the son of Cadmos.
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Notes
[49a] {tisi}: many Editors adopt the conjecture {trisi}, three.
[50] {anetheken eon}: various conjectures have been made here, e.g. {anetheken elon}, {anetheken ion}, {anetheke theo}, {anetheken eont}, {anetheke neon}: the last, which is Bentley's, is perhaps the best; but it is doubtful whether the active form of the verb is admissible.