A. B. Drachmann: Anm. af Roberts, The ancient Boeotians. 181 tilstede ingen Tvivl om, at den kolossale Indskrift fra Trajans Tid (Ao 109) hører til dette Monument. De to største, enorm tunge, Stykker af den ere fundne ovenpaa Ruinen (se Tocilesco S. 104), hvor selvfølgelig Ingen kunde være falden paa at slæbe dem op. Deraf følger ogsaa, at den af mig henkastede Tanke, at Indskriften kunde have staaet paa den store Cylinder, der danner Monumentets Hovedmasse, ikke kan forsvares; den maa, som Niemann har rekonstrueret det, have hørt til det ovenpaa denne staaende sexkantede Postament for Tropæen, hvormed ogsaa Maalene fuldstændig stemme. Uheldigt er det rigtignok, at Indskriften, som paa Grund af Bogstavernes Størrelse — de ere omtrent 1 Fod høie — ikke kunde faa Plads paa een af Sexkantens Sider, maatte deles imellem to; men dette var jo en Nødvendighed. og det vilde ganske sikkert støde mindre, hvis Niemann ikke, for Symmetriens Skyld, havde anbragt den første Halvdel paa Nordsiden og den anden paa Sydsiden, men havde ladet Indskriften indtage to til hinanden stødende Sider, saa at den dog kunde oversees og læses nogenlunde under Eet. 19. Februar 1897. J. L. Ussing. W. Rhys Roberts, The ancient Boeotians: their Character and Culture, and their Reputation. Cambridge 1895, Univ. Press. VI - 92 p. The purpose of this essay is to clear the reputation of the Boeotians from some of the unfavourable judgments passed upon them in ancient and modern times. The author, a professor of the recently founded Welsh university, has shown himself, in the execution of his somewhat quaint theme, as a man of extensive and various reading (of which he makes, at times, some unnecessary display); his judgment is sound, on the whole, and his little volume is agreeably written. Moreover he has, to a certain extent, carried his point. The epithet Βοιωτία ὗς and the character it implies is evidently incompatible with the existence of such Boeotians as Pindar and Epaminondas, the more so as these men got their education at home and passed the whole of their lives there. It is only to be regretted that Mr. R. should not have gone a little deeper into the matter and asked himself, how such men came to be at all possible in the Boeotia otherwise known to us. Very probably this is not a problem to be completely solved by the means at our disposal; but a little more might have been done. Is it not, for instance, a singular coincidence,