A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

or GROPHON, is supposed to have been the maker of the statue of Ecphauto, the daughter of Zeus, the inscription belonging to which we still possess, namely, the well-known Melian inscription. The last word of the inscription is ΤΡΟΠΗΟΝ, where it is not quite clear whether the first letter is Τ or Γ, but most scholars take it for the later. The whole inscription runs thus, when the orthography is modernized :

1. Παῖ Διὸς Ἐκφαντώ, δέξαι τόδ̓ ὰμεμφὲς ἄγαλμα,
2. σοὶ γὰρ ἐπευχόμενος τοῦτ̓ ἐτέλεσσε Γρόφων.

(Welcker. Rhein. Mus. 1848, vol.vi.p. 383.)

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