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Colony, the a e which are Greeks the S C in Jwrr . . ..ha- 
rafterSv <^he former fignifying Lufirum ^intum, t!:-. o- 
ther Senatm Confulto^ feetn to countenance this Conjeftnre 
the Roman S being different from that in^iAinnoc 
and C E upon the fame Coin. 
This Curiofity of the City of Antioch is not fo valua- 
ble as it was the Metropolis of all Sjrin^ and highly. ap- 
plauded by Anmianus Marcellims (who lived within a 
a hundred years oi this time, as it is becaufe here the 
name of Chrijiians was firft taken up, and that St Paul 
both preached and kept a Synod here, a? EnfebiHs tells 
us, and fo another I have of Antoninus Pius , infcribed 
B E P O I A I N, which is more valuable in my Fancy for 
that paflage A^i XVII. 2» than if it could be certainly 
afcribed to the nobleft of the four Cities that bore the 
feme Name. 
IX. JoK 
