]> 2026-05-28T23:39:42+00:00 William Wotton - John Evelyn - 1698-01-20 0 en 51.84089,-0.89981 1698-01-20Z 2341261.5 'I had just got a box of papers, & was going to digest matters for the forge, when I was agreeably stopp’d by your admirable Numismata, w^ch the last return of the carrier brought me. I needed no spur to read it; y^e author, y^e subject, added wings to my diligence. ... I was so truly charmed, so pleasingly taught thro’ the whole work, that y^e grief of being so soon at an end, wrought as violently at last as the joy I felt as I went along. The printer, indeed, raised my indignation; I was angry with him, & troubled to see my pen so often disfigure so elegant a book. ... My head is so very full of what I have learned & am to learn by your instructions, that I had almost forgotten to thank you for your honourable mention of my poor performances in so standing a work. ... My most honoured friend y^e late S^r Philip Skippon, who had a noble cabinet of Medals, w^ch he thoroughly understood, sent me an account of some Saxon coyns found in Suffolke, which I printed with some remarks of my own in y^e Transact. N° 187, with the initial letters of both our names. The new editor of Camden took no notice of these coyns, tho I gave them warning, & tho there are some here w^ch are not in their collection. You have been pleased to referr to them, for w^ch, Sir, I am bound to express my thanks. But this is not all. I have been censured heavily for blaming S^r W. T.’s Delphos, & substituting Delphi in its place. Your authority will now (if I am publickly a........) decide y^e controversy. I am opposed with an authority of a Medal in F. Hardouin’s Num'i Urbium, with this inscription, ΔΕΛΦΟΥ, y^e genitive, say they, of Delphos, y^e nominative of the name of the city. I use to reply that it was the genitive of ''Delphus'', Apollo’s son, mentioned by severall of y^e ancients; w^ch explication you confirm, p. 189, where you inform these cavallers, that Εἰκῶν or Νομισμα, is understood. Tis time to release you; onely pray, Sir, do me the favor at your leisure to inform me, whether there is ever another Coyne published with the Bipennis Tenedia upon it, besides that w^ch John Graves printed in his Roman Denarius.' (Bray - Wheatley 1906, vol. 4, pp. 19-21; Burnett 2020b, pp. 832-3) 16255 English Greaves 1647 Hardouin 1684 Camden 1695 Evelyn 1697 Bray - Wheatley 1906, vol. 4, pp. 19-21 Burnett 2020b, pp. 832-3 local finds book saxon greek delphi 16255 William Wotton - John Evelyn - 1698-01-20 Milton Correspondence.png 2024-01-02T12:18:48Z 2460312.0130556 2024-01-02T12:18:48Z 2460312.0130556 true William Wotton - John Evelyn - 1698-01-20 0 0 plainlist leaflet 1 [[:William Wotton - John Evelyn - 1698-01-20]] William Wotton - John Evelyn - 1698-01-20# QUERYba9190802646a4fdaab2cc26e3dedb9a 0 0 csv 1 [[:William Wotton - John Evelyn - 1698-01-20]] William Wotton - John Evelyn - 1698-01-20# QUERY651e423b52616f2e073edcf8ec183e2a