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the Mufes. The rooms where the Literati conven'd be- 
ing at firft io adorned. ATccordingly ia the Church of 
Sx, Irenceus 2it Lyons is to be feen a pavement Mofaic ot 
1000 years Antiquity, which expreffes Rhetorick, Logick 
and Ethic's. The firft: ofthefe pavements amongft the 
l{omans, v/as that of the Temple of Fortune, laid by Syllcc 
170 years before Chrift's birth. Afterwards the I^man 
Generals, and particularly Julius Ccefar ufed to carry with 
him into the Army fach pieces for the decoration'of their 
lodgings. Andof fuch the learned Yi'clSpon hath found 
great plenty in Greece, and in Italy , and in France. But 
in fpecial he praifes, befides fome late imitations at the 
Goblins in Paris ^ thofe in the Dome at Sienna : the grand 
work iathe Monaftery of St. J{emie at ]^eins: defcrib- 
ed by Berber: that of the Cathedral Church at Neims, of 
which fee P<?/^d7: andthe Mofaic guilt 'of St. Marl(s at 
fenice. And then concludes with fome inlcriptions to 
iSj//i:'^;2//j*, and others touching Opera Albaria ^ ^uadra^ 
tart a, 
3 Next follows his difcourfe on the Palmyrene Figures 
and infcriptions, preferved at I{pme in Greek and Sy- 
riack. The former to this fenfe: To the honour of A^le* 
bolus and Malachbelus^ that is the Sun and Moon accor- 
ding to our Author, the Deities of his country X. Aurelius 
Heliddorus, fon of Antiochus of Palmyra or Hadriania ydt* 
dicated this Marble, and a Statue of 6'ilver, or Signum 
with its ornature, for the prefervation of himfelf, his 
wife, and children , on the month Peritius (ov February) 
in tht (Seleucian) year 5-47. under the Emperor ^^/r^//'<?/?, 
40 years before Cenobia, the valiant, learned, and beauti- 
ful Queen of the aforelaid Palmyras to whofe time Mr. 
Petite refers that Tnfcription in his explication of the 
Syriack writing. Wherein he hath not fatisfied the curious 
Mr. Galland: becaufe it is more then probable the Syriack 
exprefTes the fame with the Greek. As we lee feveral Ro- 
man Monuments bear the fame lenfe both in Greek and in 
Latin. And Dr. Spon gives "us another Infcription with 
the figure of the Sun, and an Eagle at his breaft:, confe- 
crated 
