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ters were defaced, we impreffed a Paper with a wet 
Sponge into them, and by that Means found thofe in 
the fifth Line to have been as we have exprefs’d them 
above, and not as in other Copies that have been hand- 
ed about of this Infcription. 
The only Letter wanting in the firff Line is an N 
before E P T V N O, and fo no Difficulty in reading 
that.. As to the fecond, though it was more ufual in 
Infcriptions of this Nature to exprefs the Donation by 
the Word S A C R V M only, referring to the Temple 
or Altar dedicated ^ yet we have fo many Inftances in 
Gruter's Corpus Infcriptionum of TEMPLVM and 
A R M alfo cut on the Stones, that there is not the 
leaft Occafion to fay any Thing farther upon that 
Poinu 
* The third Line can be no other Way fill’d up, than 
as I have done it by the prick’d Letters ; I mufl: own, 
however, that I have had fome Scruple about the Phrafe 
of DO MVS DIVINA, the fame Thing as D O- 
M VS AVG VS T A, the Imperial Family, which 
I cannot fay occurs, with any Certainty of the Time 
it was ufed in, before the Reign of Antoninm Pius^ 
from whom, down to Conjlantine the Great, it is very 
frequently met with in Infcriptions. This kept me 
fome Time in Sufpenfe, whether this found at Chiche- 
(ier could be of fo early a Date as the Time of Clau- 
dius : But as we find feveral Infcriptions in Gruter ■ 
with thofe Words in them, or L HrD. D. In honor em 
Domus Divina, which is much the fame Thing, with- 
out any Mark of the Time when they were cur, they 
may have been before the Reign of Antoninus Pius, and 
then only came into more general Ufe ^ and as the Time 
that Cogidunus lived in, will not let this be of a la- 
ter Handing, I think we may offer it as an Authority 
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