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Pikeamongft feveral other Arms: not unlike Minerva ("as 
ftie isalfo expreft inCoynsboth Latinand Greek, andSoul- 
diers attending. One of which holds hajia pur a in his 
left hand, and leads with his right an horfe, without fad- 
die or ftirrups.The want of which, Hippocrates and Galena 
make the caufe of feveral pains and maladies in the legs, 
which the Scythians and Romans were afflicted with. 
Before this triumphant horfe are two Liiiores with their 
faces, which were inftruments both of State and Juftice, 
and ferved to thefe fevere fentences; Colliga manus, virgis 
ccede.pleile fecuri. Of thefe the Didat'orshad 24, theCon- 
luls 12, the Proconfuls 6^ and the Pratores Vrbium 2, 
14. This treats of a navis Frumentaria, or the reverfe 
of a rare Coyn of Commodus-, who every ) ear fent Vidtual- 
lers to Africa^ as Lampridius aifures us. 
i^. The next is the learned Mr. Gallandhis accurate de- 
fcription of a Coyn of Tribonian^ fent from Smyrna to Pa- 
ris: which bears j4pollo Clarius with his Lyr^ within a four 
coIumnctTemple, and an Ox at his Altar. Then for Smyr- 
na and the 12 Cities of ^jonia, perfons with their hands 
lift up, Kotvhfmav, as the Coyns calls them ; in the Rimme 
whereof we read, jc^, ceW^vo*- hpecyj- icovai^ }<.ohop(i)v'ieov^ Likewife 
a Medal of the Antonines, Mmv ly.'Tr'oKcm 'Tr^oMo^ <pfQvr&>y «p. p^. 
i<5. You have the letter of the excellent Fr. l{edi of 
Florence, that Spectacles were invented about the year 
1300. from the teftimony of a Chronicle of the convent 
of St. Catberina at Pifa^Anno 13/3. Frater Alexander de Spi- 
na vir modejius ^ bonus , qucecunque vidit aut audivit fac* 
tay fcivit et facere. Otularia ab aliquo primo faUa & com-^ 
municare nolente, ipje fecit ^ & com muni cavit corde hilari^ 
yolente. And from the preamble of a treatife made ^/^/20 
I29g. di governo deUafamiglia de Scan dro di Pipo'X^o. Mi 
truovo cojigravofo di anni che\ non arei valen\a di leggier e 
i fcrivere ]an\a vetri appellati Okiali truouati novellamente 
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