^R E PACE; v 



can compare thefe his terms only to Spin- 

 trii^e^^ in a valuable coUeftionof Roman 

 coins* 



I therefore with due fubraiffion recom* 

 mend to that otherways great naturalift^ 

 to change them, and expunge, this re- 

 proachable obftenity f from his works. 



In the printing off the fheets, fome very 

 elTential errors have inadvertently efcaped 

 me. Thefe errors, as eflential ones, and 

 relative to my method, I beg leave to note 

 here, rather than in a common table of 

 errata ; that they may appear more con- 

 fpicuous, or open to the corredlion of the 

 candid reader : however, I muft obferve 

 that they remain ofily in the text, as the 

 Tabulae Synopticie are right. 



* Very obfcene coins ilruck by the Emperor Tibe- 

 flus in his retreat with his favourite Sejanus^ to the 

 ifland of Caprea ; not regarded by Medalifts, on ac- 

 count of their obfcenity, 



f One inftance will more than fuffice, and let it be 

 his Venus Dioney Syft. Nat. XII. p. 1 128, NMi2 ; a 

 defcriptlon, fit only for the per ufal of a profligate Aretin, 

 or K^ocheller. 



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