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thence concludes that the mscription thus terminated by that 

 letter should belong to the kneeling and conquered gladiator : 

 we learn also that he died in tliis contest, after having been 

 victor in fifteen other combats. Another inference which 

 M. Millin draws from hence is, that the letter IM, which pre- 

 cedes the 0, cannot be supplied 1)y reading M'tss7is (sent back), 

 and that it nuist be the initial of the word AlyrwU/o, which we 

 thus find in the list of gladiators. The upper inscription be- 

 longing as we have seen to the gladiator concjucred, the lower 

 ought to refer to'the conqueror : his name is thus expressed in 

 full, HlPPOLYTVS,and the letters which follow in bad preserva- 

 tion, belong to the words FO lUL. V. which inform us that this 

 Hippolytus was five times victor. M. Miilin here takes occa- 

 sion to give an explanation of the singular Mosaics- of the Aibani 

 Villa, which Winckehnan has figured, but without any description. 



The fourth pair presents no difficulty. The two combatants 

 have thrown aside their bucklers, and the conqueror, who has 

 lost his helmet, puts his liand upon his adversary as if to hold 

 him so as to receive the sword with which he is about to strike 

 him. There is only one inscription here, aiid it is uncertain to 

 whichof the two it belongs. We read : QVS lUL VI, Quintus 

 the Frejulian has conquered six times. 



The fifth pair is remarkable from the two myrmillos being 

 armed v.'ith a trident, which is contrary to what has been trans- 

 mitted to us respecting the gladiators ; viz. that the nnrmillo 

 was armed with a fork or trident {fusc'nm), and tliat he attacked 

 the retlarms who held a net, or the troiis, who carried a round 

 buckler and a crooked sword. This proves that customs varied 

 among the Romans according to times and jilaces ; and M. Millin 

 thence takes occasion to remark, that it is a general error with 

 all those who give treatises on the manners and customs of the 

 Romans, not to distinguish the sra at which the authors wrote, 

 whom they quote, and the country to MJiich they belonged, er- 

 roneously regarding as generaly usages which have been modified 

 by a thousand circumstances. Here alio tlun-e is only one in- 

 scription, NITIMO F IVL V, which it is difficult to ascribe 

 to either gladiator. The first letters are the termination of a 

 proper name wliich cannot he. filled up : tiie otlicrs show tliat 

 the gladiator was a Frejulian, and that he had conquered five 

 times. The termination of the proper name in O, which is 

 GalUc, confirms M. Millin in liis conjecture that the gladiators 

 in this bas-relief were Frejulians ratlier than Frioulians. 



The last groupe also has no more than one inscription. We 

 there read the end of the name of one of tlie combatants which 

 terminates in A, and the letters IVL XV M, which inform us 

 that this Frejulian had coaquered fifteen times, and that he was 

 a myrmillo. 



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