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⁵ The initial letters of the first 23 lines of the ’Αναγραφὴ τῆς ’Ελλάδος of Dionysius son of Calliphon (*GGM* I p. 238; Dionysius 115 in *PW*) give Διονυσίου τοῦ Καλλιφῶντος; professedly early third century B.C. There are two acrostics, ll. 109–34 and 513–32, in the Οἰκουμένης περιήγησις of Dionysius (*GGM* II p. 103; Dionysius 94 in *PW* col. 917; Graf, *Akrostichis* in *PW*, who also mentions some others); Hadrian’s time. See further J. U. Powell, *New Chapters in the history of Greek literature*, third series, 1933 p. 202, who cites two good specimens from Kaibel, *Epigrammata Graeca* nos. 979 (late first century B.C.) and 1096. I may add two more: (1) the Hymn of Maximus from Talmis in Ethiopia (*BCH* 1894 p. 150; Kaibel, *Berlin SB* 1890 p. 781; G. Manteuffel, *Eos* xxxi, 1928, p. 181; cf. A. D. Nock, *Harvard Theolog. Rev.* xxvii, 1934, p. 59), where ll. 1–22 give Μαξίμος Δεκουρίων ἔγραψα; (2) a Latin Hymn to Apollo from Talmis, Bücheler, *Carm. Lat. Epigr.* 271, cf. Nock *op. cit.* p. 61.