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T.F.VERECVND. 
MAG.EQV ES.ALAE.' 
I. FLA AVG.BRIT 00. 
C ,R, IVR. IT. AL I C I . 
Gruter. dxlii. ji 
The Freedom of the City had been for fome time 
before this a regular Reward for rhe Fidelity of the 
Provinces, or any other military or civil Merit. The 
famous Oration of the Emperor Claudius , or the Aft 
for incorporating the People of Vienne in Gaul (a 
large Fragment of which is preferved in Gruter, p. 
dii.) is a remarkable Inftance of what I have ad- 
vanced. Qvid. ergo. non. italicvs. senator* 
PROVINCIALI. POTIOR ) EST. I AM. VOBIS. CVM.HANC* 
PARTEM. CENSVRAE. MEAE. AFPROBARE. COEPERO. 
QVTD. DE. EA. RE. SENTI AM. REBVS. OSTENDaM. SED. 
NE. PROVI NCI ALES. QVIDEM SI. MODO, ORNARE. 
CVRIAM. POTERINT. REIICIENDOS. P\TO. For fo 
the laft Words muft be emended, as they have been 
reftored by Reinejius and Grrevius. 
Afterwards, probably a little before the Date of 
our Infcription, which is near the End of the Reign 
of Car ac alia, came the general Conftitution of that 
Emperor 5 the Memory of which being frefh might 
probably occafion the Infertion of the Words Civium 
Romanorum in this Monument. Inorbe Romano qui 
funt, ex Conftitutione Imperatoris Antonini Cives Ro- 
mani effeSli funt , arc the W ords of Ulpian, in the firft 
Book of the ‘Digeft . Tit. de Statu Hcminum , Law 
xvii. That the Antoninus there mention’d was our 
Caracalla, is abundantly made good by Baron Span - 
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