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TENTIBVS in the 12th Line 5 though it has not 
had the good Fortune to have been remarked, as 
the latter. lens in the Nominative Cafe was ufed 
more than once by Cicero s and though he declines 
it, like all other Authors now in being, Euutis, 
hunti) 8 cc. yet it might originally have been de- 
clined Ientis, Tenti ; but as there is now no Au- 
thority extant to warrant it, this muft pafs as meer 
Conje&ure. 
Line 32.) There are no fuch Names to be found 
in any of the Fajii Confulares as C. Calfnrnius 
Flacais and Lucius Trebius Germanus • fo they 
muft have been not the Confutes Ordinarij of the 
Year, but SuffeLfi. It is very ftrange that the 
Romans fhould fo long adhere to this troublefome 
and uncertain Method of Computation by Years 
of their Confuls, fince they had frequently feveral 
Pairs of them in the fame Year, efpecially after they 
fell under the Imperial Government. Some reckon- 
ed by the ordinary Confuls, who came into therr 
Office upon the firft of January , about 600 Years 
after the building of Rome\ for ’till that Time the 
Month of their entring upon that Dignity was not 
fix’d ; and others computed by the Suffetti, who 
might come in feveral Months after, as Vacancies 
happened,or as they were appointed by the Emperor, 
tho’ their Names were feldom inferred in the Fafli . 
Befides this, it was impoffible for any Man to re- 
member how many Years were elapfed from the 
prcfent Time upwards, to fuch and fuch Confuls, 
without Tables of their Succeffion, or having Re- 
courfe to fome other iEra, as the A. V. C. anno 
Dr bis con dit^e , which they do not leem to haVe 
much regarded. 
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