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minds of conquerors and potentates, and to delude 

 them fo far as to make them forget themfelves, affedl 

 to be gods, and have temples, altars, and divine ho- 

 nours decreed to them. Thus Julius Csfar was re- 

 proached, with having his image carried in the fame 

 chariot with the infignia of the gods, according to 

 Suetonius ; and it is to be fufpeded that white horfes 

 were preferred by potentates and other exalted pcr- 

 fons upon the fame account. Livy tells us, that Ca- 

 raillus, after he had fubdued the reii, a people of 

 Italy, entered their city in a triumphal chariot, drawn 

 by white hordes, highly to the offence and allonifliment 

 of the inhabitants, who confidered him as afluming 

 greater honours than belonged to an human being, 

 and afFeding to appear like the fupreme and omnipo- 

 tent Jupiter, fo true is the remark of Juvenal, 



-Nihil ep quod credere de fc 



Noil poj/it, cum laiidatiir Diis aqua potejias. 



Nothing fo grofs that will not be deceiv'd, 

 Nothing fo falfe that will not be believ'd ; 

 When powr by fervile flattery is prais'd, 

 And equal to the gods a jiiortal rais'd. 



When Conftantine the Great founded the city of 

 Conftantinople, and made it the feat of empire, he 

 built the famous Hippodrome, or place in which horfes 

 were to run, whofe ruins are ftill in part extant and 

 remaining. Here the races which Rome faw in her 



O 2 Circus^ 



