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was made, muft have been named Malentus 

 Cai^rlppa^ who bearing fuch an OfGce as 

 Scribe, or the like, in the Expedition of 

 drtan thQ Emperor, performed an Ad of Pub- 

 lick Benificence and Generofity, both to 

 Strangers and Citizens, denoted by the Word 

 (c^ AAiMMA^ or ^htif^f/.ct^ which fignifies XJn- 

 ftion. Perhaps he diftributed amongft them 

 Sweet OylS, to be ufed in or after their 

 Bathings. 'Tis pity what follows is fo im- 

 perfect and efpecially that we cannot find 

 (fut the Date : For that might have direded 

 us to the precife time of Hadrian^ Expedi- 

 tion into thefe Oriental Parts, where he made 

 great Conquefts, and enlarged the Bounds of 

 the Roman Empire. ^ 

 But as great a Curiofity as any 

 The Se- were their Sepulchers, being Square 

 pulchers. Towers, four or five Stories high, 

 and ftanding on both fides of a hol- 

 low way, towards the North part of the Ci- 

 ty. They ftretch out in length the Ipace of 

 a Mile, and perhaps formerly might extend 

 a great way further- At our firft view of 

 them, as we entf ed the place, we could not 

 conjedure what they were^ fome thought 

 them the Steeples of ruined Churches, and 

 were in hopes we fliould have found fbme 



CO ^^i^' Secufiy Bp* I. 2. Tells us of one, who was 

 accufed of an Illegal Exaftion of Money from a Pf or 

 vince, Titulo V^^uentarii y novf what was tn that cafe 

 unjuftjy exafted, might be in this a Voluntary Dona- 

 tion, not of the Province to the Governoitr, but of a 

 great Man to the People. Or clfe Vnguemmm inay 

 befuppofed to be a Donative, like CUvarium ox CuJi^ 

 nmum^ ufed fpmetimcs by the J^mm\ 



