Abstract
SEVERAL ATTIC INSCRIPTIONS, one of them published only very recently, mention a Julius Nicanor, the Homer and New Themistocles: in several of them these words have been erased.l Nicanor is also mentioned by Dio Chrysostom and Stephanus of Byzantium. He is therefore a person of interest, though the evidence concerning him has caused various difficulties. First, Homer and New Themistocles. These words were correctly explained as long ago as 1863 by Karl Keil.2 Keil adduced a passage of Dio's Rhodian Oration, in which Dio is urging the Rhodians not to abandon their Hellenic traditions as the Athenians have done.3 They have called so-and-so 'Olympian,' who is not even their fellow-citizen by birth, but a mere Phoenician, and not one from Tyre or Sidon but from a certain village on the mainland, who depilates his arms too, and wears headbands;4 and so-and-so, that very sloppy poet who once displayed his
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