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ocher Waters ; or both .* Works of great Munificence, 
and becoming Getds Spirit. By thefe, or fome fuch 
Ways, it is probable, this People was obliged to Gcta ; 
but no one is more probable, than that of preferving the 
AquceCalid* • which were in thole days lo famous, as to 
give a Denomination to the place, ft is well known. 
That Rome had her Thermo Severianx and Antoniriianx, 
fo called from their refpc&ive Founders ; the former be- 
ing built by Severus , the Father ; the latter by Antoninus , 
the Brother, of Get a : fo that to take care of Baths, was 
a fort of Greatnefs, that Family Seemed to delight in ; 
and Geta may reasonably be fuppofed, to have his lhare 
of this Delight. 
From the great probability of this Opinion, the Au- 
thor has, out of Love to his native Country, and the 
Honour due to Geta, colleded and put together, what He 
can meet with relating to that Emperor. He has made 
a new Edition of Getds Life, from the HiftorU Auguflx 
Scriptores ; reltering it to its true Author, Julius Capitolinus ; 
and explaining it, with the Notes of Cafauhon, Gruter t 
and Salmafius ; to which he has added fome of his own. 
He has reprinted all the fnfcriptions he can meet with, 
of Getds, and many of his Coyns ; with Ihort Notes on 
both. 
After all this, He is not fo far engaged in this Opini- 
on, but that if, (by any Infcription on the Bafis of this 
Statue, or any other tefcimony) it Shall hereafter appear, 
that this Fragment deferves another Explication, he lhall 
readily comply with any fuch clearer Teftimony : being 
no way difpoled, to give farther credit to this broken 
Monument, than lhall anfwer the imperfed Qondition it 
is now in. 
To this Dihertation, deGeta Britannico , He has added 
the Chronology of his illuftrious Houle ; (hewing, how 
his Father, Severus, from a private Gentleman in Africa , 
O o o 2 came 
