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Modins opoii his head,as befitting the infcription, Deo Sera^ 
pidi, Likewife the figure of the Herma theme is rare^though 
the name be frequent. He ends his diflertation with a re- 
mark oiSalmafius^ that amongfl: the Antients many Gods 
were of both Sexes. As Luna ^ Lunus ^Bacchus (3 Baccha, 
Liber & Libera or Ceres : Jphroditus ^ Jphrodita , and 
thence Hermaphrodita and in Latine Fenus mas'3 
ffemina, 
7. After he treats of the Egyptian Harpocrates ^ 
HermarpocratGs : with his forefinger on his mouth, fit- 
ting fomelimes upon an EfiricJ?, commonly on th^Lotus^ 
tree, furroundedin fome gems with the Planets in form 
of Birds moving in liquid ALther, and with Characters, 
partly Greek, partly Egyptian, according to the fancy 
of the Gnojiics ^ of which [ee Macarii Abraxas. To 
thefe he iwh)ojx)Lts Si^na Fanthea, and Statues of 
na quce er at omnia dea : and tells us that upon the walls- 
of Hadrianople^ he efpied the following inftription coiif^ 
cerning providence , ^^m-Ui ^ t^kiv a-a. 
^ Tht Cymbala o£ the Ancients were two hallow ^^w?/^ 
pheres of Brals or filver,ftruck one againft the other, ufed. 
moft in the dances of the Phrygian Cybele, But theCr^^?»^- 
t(i and Crotala were like our Caftanets : to which anfwer- 
t\iQ Cruppa and&^fo//^, for the feet. THiq Tympana, 
ourTimbrels, v/ere a Syrian invention. The Cithara a trian- 
gular Harp^ the Lyr*^, one bounded with SS. 2ls com- 
monly ia the Statues: of Apollo^ and tho. Sijlrum, in 
fliape like a Racquet, ctofled with three loo^e wiresofi 
Brafs,proper to the ceremonies of I/is. 
9. The fquare houfe at Neims, 74 foot long:, and 41 
and a half broad, was notibuilt for Pmtwrtumy or a 
Gapitol or Council-houfe, as Boldo dAlbenas conceiv'd. 
/ Butby the front with its I5^;?^22^2^;??j and by the number of 
its pillars, 6 in front, and on each fide 11, appears to be 
a Temple; not unlike that of. Afm^rt^^^ and Thefeus at 
Athens, the Porch or Bro>naon being one third of the 
whole length* The lilaeL^is tDDBe iaid .touchingc Notredame 
dela- 
