( 8jo ) 
was deftroy’d by any Fire, War, or other Enemy than 
Age and Neglect. 
Tho’ the Word conlapfa is wrote here with an iST, there 
can be no doubt but the Pronunciation of it was as we 
ufually find it fpelt, collapfa ; a certain Argument of the 
Letter N’s being filent in the middle of a W ord, before 
two Confonants, efpecially NS, and NT, when the T 
was pronounced like an S. To omit what ' ^intitian 
fays to this purpol’e, it is confirm’d by the Abfence of 
that Letter in numberlefs Infcriptions in Gruter^ Reine- 
Jius, ^c. and no wonder, fince the Workmen in thofc 
Days, as well as ours, ufually wrote as they fpoke their 
Words. 1 fliall nor trouble you with Quotations of any 
of them to this end, but as a Proof of what f fay, on- 
ly affure you from ocular Infpedion and a moft accu- 
rate Examination . that there is no trarifyerfe Line over 
the Letters tS belonging to the Word FABRIQESIS in 
the inferiprion of IVL. VITALI at Bath, whatever 
has been affirm’d to the contrary, but that the Letter 
N is totaly omitted there. Yon will alfo pardon my 
Endeavours, before I leave this Subject, to explain a 
ihort fnfeription belonging to fome of our Countrymen, 
tho* found at Amerhach in Germany \ fince it will be a 
new Proof of the foregoing Afiertion. 
III. 
NYMPHIS'^ 
N 9 BRITTON 
TRIPVTIEN 
SVB CVRA 9 
VLPI 
MALCHU 
!>LEG XXII 
Nymfbis. 
l^umerus Brittonum 
Triputienjis, or — 
Sub cur a 
Marci Ulpii 
Malchi 
CenturionU Leg. 22. 
Trmigenia, Via, Felicis. 
PR<j.P<?F<f 
There 
! Ipjfit, Li|>. I. c. 7; 
* Cruter. p, xclil. 
