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contains alfo an Image of Vulcan in the Front of a 
Temple, with his feveral Attributes, like the former, 
but differs from it in the other Ornaments. 
The Dcfign of both the Infcriptions is to return 
Thanks for fome Favour aferibed to the Deity, to 
whom they are addreffed. That on the firft Plate 
runs thus : 
MARTI 
IOVIALI 
TI. CLAVDIVS . PRIMVS 
ATTII .LIBER 
V . S . L . M 
That is 
Marti Joviali Titus Claudius ‘Primus , Attii libertus , 
njotum folvit libens merito . 
The Word IOVIALI, in the fecond Line, feems 
to be an Epithet given to Mars in Compliment to 
the Emperor Diocletian^ who affumed the Name of 
Jovius } as his Collcgue Maximian did that of Her- 
culius. Hence yc meet with fome military Bodies 
in the Notitia, and elfewhere, called Joviuni and 
Herculiani from thofc Emperors j like the Flaviani t 
Aeliani , and the like, which were fo denominated 
from the Names of other preceding Princes. There 
are alfo other Epithets of the fame Form with that 
in the Infcription, taken either from the Names of 
Deities, or Emperors deified ; fuch were the facer- 
dotes Augu ft ales-, Flaviales , Hadrianales, and others, 
which often occur in Gruter. In like manner Cicero 
gives the Title of miniftri Martiales to the Preifls of 
i Mars 
