C 170 ) 
Uikewife wliether AICMAAXOT in the fame Infcription 
may not be inftead of MAAXOT TOT MAAKOT, which 
is the ingenious Conje<a:ure of that excellent Grammariaa 
Mr. William Baxter^ 
4- ^^S* 9^' Septimiuf» Vorodem Trocuratortm Duce^ 
mrtum Augufti ^ APOAIieTHN. This word, if 6ree\ 
is faultily tranfcribed ; and in one Copy I have feen, 
the O is very fmall, as I fuppofe it on the Stone ; 
which might occafion the tranfcribing thereof without it 
in the former Voyage (pag, 137.) So that 'tismoft pro- 
bable that 'tis the remains of fome other letter almoft 
worn out. I conjedure it to have been APTAFETHN, 
n being taken for r, and that this Septimius was Pra^ 
feilus Amofi^^ having the care to fee that the City were 
fufBciently provided with Bread ; which was a moft 
necefTary Officer in a Place that muft needs be furnifli'd 
with Corn ffbm Abroad. And this fame Septimius^ (in 
the Infcription, pag, 99.) is ftiled ..... eOAQTHN THG 
MHTPOKOAce)NeiAC. lege KPeOAOTHN, which fliould 
iignifie that he was Diftrihutor of the Emperor's Muni- 
ficence in Flefli to the People. Thefe Infcriptions beac 
date in Aprils Anno Dom. 267, not long before the 
li^^xh oi Odcenathus, sn\\o is herein ftiled CGBACTOC : 
and 'tis not improbable but he might inftitute fuch a 
Guftom, as at the Pttblick Char^ge^ to give the People 
a Largefs in Fleflt on partijcular Days, to reconcile them 
to the Dominion of their Fellow-Citizen. This is cer-» ^ 
tain, that Anrelian firft inftituted fuch a Cuftom of 
giving Flefli at Rome : The words of Fopifcus are, Idem 
Aurelianus & porcinam carnem populo Romano diflrthuitf 
qua hoMeque dividitur ; which Cuftom continued till 
the tiixiQ ot ConJiantine^ when (according to Zojmusy 
one Luciany w^o had this Office of diftributing Swifies 
Flefh at Rome^ had Intereft enough among the People t0 
fet up Mapcentius for Emperor and Salmajms aflures us> 
lhat it w^s, not difcontinuediill the time of Bmdim^ 
