YOL. XLV.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 603 



ORiKNs AVG, with M L in the exergue.* These several attributes maybe found 

 in some or other of the imperial coins between the time of Gordian the younger, 

 and the Constantines, or later. But the singularity of this coin is this; that in 

 the figure of Apollo the eyes seem plainly to be covered by a fillet, which goes 

 across the forehead; the reason of which he cannot account for. But we are told 

 by Suetonius, that among other reflections thrown upon Augustus for a secret 

 entertainment made by him, at which the persons present were dressed in the 

 habit of deities, and this at a time of great scarcity in Rome, acclamatum est 

 postridie frumentum omne deos commedisse; et Cassarem esse plane ApoUinem, 

 sed tortorem. To which the historian adds, quo cognomine is deus quadem in 

 parte urbis colebatur ;-\- which being the place where criminals were punished, 

 is thus described by Martial : 



Cruenta pendent qua flagella tortorum.:^: 



It was not unusual for the ancients to apply the attributes of one deity to 

 another on particular occasions. From whence one might be led to interpret 

 this representation of Apollo, or the sun, with a whip, and a bandage over 

 his eyes (the emblems of justice,) together with the two captives, as descriptive 

 of the punishment denounced against all, who should attempt to oppose the go- 

 vernment of Allectus. The place where it was found, of late years has gained 

 the name of the Silver hill, because more silver coins have been found there, 

 than in any other part of the city. And by the remaining ruins, which discover 

 themselves on turning up the ground, it is supposed, that some large building 

 stood anciently on that spot. But great numbers of coins in all metals, and of 

 all sizes, have also been found in several other places; so that Mr. Stair is now 

 possessed of several hundred, which have been all collected from this Roman set- 

 tlement; among which are the emperors Valentinian and Arcadius in gold; with 

 most of the imperial coins from Augustus to that time, either in silver or brass; 

 many of which are exceedingly well preserved. 



Mr. Ward subjoins here a brief account of an ancient date in Arabian figures, 

 which yet remains at Walling, near Aldermarston in Berkshire. It is impressed 

 in relievo on a brick, near the top of a large and high chimney, on the outside 

 of a farmhouse belonging to William Wollascot, Esq. of Woolhampton, in that 



* Some very skilful antiquaries have thought, that those letters on the reverse of many coins of 

 the lower emperors, which are put at the bottom, often denote the place, where those coins were 

 •truck. And therefore, as he met with m l by themselves on no others, but those of Carausiuj 

 and Allectus, who both ruled in Britain; it seems not improbable, that they may stand for monela 

 Londinensis, or Londini, supplying signata or incusa. As on some coins of Constantinus Magnus, 

 who was first proclaimed emperor in Britain, we find m s L and m l i, which may also be so inter- 

 preted. Indeed the letters m l s and m l p occur on the coins of some other emperors, where they 

 have been read, and perhaps justly enough, inoneta Lugduni signata and percussa — Orig. 



•t In vit. August, cap. 70. — Orig. | Lib. II. epigr. 17. — Orig. 



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