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as He could meet with# This Comparifon flic wed a 
great Refemblance between the Face in the Statue, and 
that in two of Get/s Coyns- 
This Argument, drawn from the Similitude of Faces 
(of great force to determine the Reader’s Judgment in 
favour of Get a) is farther confirmed by the Horfe ; a Crea- 
ture of which Geta was very fond ; infomuch, as that He 
afFe&ed to be reprefented under the Figure of Cajlor, (as 
the Romm Emperors often were under the Figures of their 
Gods) of whom it is faid, C after gaudet Equis j Of 
this Figure there is in 3 Qifclius , a Coyn of Getas , very 
much to this purpofe ; reprefented Tab. iv. fig. 5. of this 
Rook. 
Thefe things bring to mind, the Authority which 
Geta had in Soutb-Britain : where (as 4 Herodian affirms) 
all matters were under his Adminiflration, during the 
Stay which Sejvetus and Caracalla made in the North ; 
which was a Year, or more. In this time, Geta had it in 
his Power, to do many things, in favour of Cities and 
Countreys, here in the South- The great Generofity of 
his Mind prompted Him to publick Works; Rich as are, 
to this day, attefled by 3 4 5 Infcriptions, with his Name in 
them .• and it is highly probable, £That this Statue was 
eredted to Geta on fome fuch account ] 
If this be granted, fas from the concurrence of fo much, 
and fo good Teftimony, it feems highly probable; here 
is a large and pleafant View opened into Antiquity ; 
not of late taken notice of by any Writer .* It (hews, that 
Geta was a great Benefadfor to old Bath ; either by laying, 
in a perfect Morafs, the Foundation of that Town ; or 
by prefervlng the Hot-Springi entire, from the Influx of 
3 Tab XLII- i. 
4 Lib. iif. Sea XLVIII. 
•? Qruteri Thef. InfcripUonum, pag. CLVII. i, 3, 4, 5. 
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