( ) 
if we may believe Plutarch \ who tells us, that the 
People were divided by him into what we at this Day 
call Companies ofTradefmen, and mentions the T(^ove<; 
or Fahi among them, tho* ^Florus fays, that Populus 
Romanus a Servio Tullio relatus fuit in Cenfuniy digef- 
tus in Claffes^ Curiis atque Collegiis dijiributus. But as 
the Power of the Romans extended itfelf, it carry’d the 
Arts of that great People along with it, and improv’d the 
Nations that it fubdued,by civilizing, and teaching them 
the Ufe of whatever was necelfary or advantageous' a- 
mong their Conquerors, from which mofl wife and 
generous Difpolition, among other beneficial Inflitu- 
tions, we find thefe Collegia to have been eflablifiied 
in every Part of the Empire, from the frequent men- 
tion of them in the Infcriptions colleded by Gruter^ 
Spon, and other x'intiquaries. 
Several Sorts of Workmen were included under the 
Name of Fabri^ particularly all thofe that were con- 
cern’d in any kind of Building, whence we meet with 
the Fdbri Ferrarii^ Lignarii, Tignarii^ Materiarii, Na- 
vales, and others ^ the laft named may have been the 
Authors of dedicating this Temple to Neptune, having 
fo near a Relation to the Sea, from which the City of 
Chichejler is at fo fmall a Diftance, that perhaps that 
Arm of it which ftill comes up within two Miles of its 
Walls, might formerly have wafla’d them. The reft of 
the Fraternity might very well pay the fame Devotion 
to Minerva, the Goddefs of all Arts and Sciences, and 
Patronefs of the Dxdalian Profeflion. 
As no lefs than five Letters are wanting at the Be- 
ginning of the fixth Line, there cannot be fewer loft 
at the Beginning of the feventh, where the Stone is 
more 
*• la vit. Niinwe. 
h Lib, I. fiip. 6. 
