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delavie at Vienna in France : namely that it was a Temple 
of the Columnage called Monepteros. 
10. This diflertation com'prifes the judgment of the 
excellent Mr. de Pyrejc concerning the marriage Ring 
of Teclai of an ounce Weight in Gold, and infcrib'd Tec* 
la vivat Deo feo, as the Chriftian then did clinch. 
II There was found at Lyons four years agoe, a thumb 
Ring of Gold of one Memorinus, weighing four Luy- 
dors and a half. Which confirms what P/Z/^y faith lib. 33. 
that the J^o;^^/?/ at length efteemed themfelves from the 
weight of their Gold rings: which were before the honour 
of Embaffadours only, the reft wearing Iron. Whence 
Dr. Spon refers us to Gorleus s DaUylotheca^ Abraxas Chifle^ 
til, and the Inventorie of the famous Pyr^T^^^^x,- where 
amongft others was a Brafs Ring bearing a Medal of y^- 
lian the Emperor, whofe reverfe was IJis Faria, 
The 12. explains an elegant Medal of Severtis and his 
Lady Jtilia Domna: not Domina, for Salmdjius will have 
it a Syriack word. She is thus ftil'd as in many Medals, 
foin a fair Infcription in the Galerie of the Duke of Tus- 
cany ,bvou%ht thither from Tunis, On the reverfe, the fu- 
rious God of Wine, in aCharet triumphs over tlie Orient, 
{which. Sever us alfo conquer'd) drawn by a pair of Leko^ 
pards^ and hinifelf bearing a Leopards skin on his left, and 
a pot in his right hand; coyn'd at Seleucia upon Paly cad^ 
nus. This chapter ends with a good Monument of Seve^^ 
rus {onad ntsir Sidon in Syria. 
13. Of ancient pidlures, which are rarely found.' 
and only in water colours, ( for oyl painting is but a 
late invention J this worthy Phifitian mentions the nup- 
tials in hortis Aldobrandznisi ^ I^me triumphant^ lately 
found in xhQ Sepulcher of the Nafonian family, near to the 
Amphitheater of Titus ^ and reprefented to the publick 
by Belloniu^. Where you have ^ma viilrix, fitting with a 
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