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Mars (a) ; and calls the Company of Merchants at 
Rome Mercuriales (b), as being under the Prote&ion 
of Mercury . And G any merles is filled by Macrobtus , 
Jovialium poculorum minijler (c). Now as thcfe fe- 
veral Appellations took their Rife from the peculiar 
Relation and Subferviency of the Perfons to thofe 
Deities, from whom they were denominated; fo 
Mars himfelf, being here called Jovialis , is by an 
Excels of Flattery reprefented as fubfcrvient to this 
Emperor Jovius or Jupiter. For fo he was alfo 
called, as we find in lome like Inftances of fulfom 
Compliments paid to him by the Pancgyrift Mamer - 
tinus ; as when addrefling to him, and his Collegue 
Maximian , he fais: Sanffe Jupiter et Hercules 
bone (d). And in another PafTage: Non opinione tra- 
ditus , fed confpicuus et praefens , Jupiter cominus 
invocan ; non advena , fed imperator-, Hercules ad- 
orari (e). And as if no Degree of Flattery could be 
too extravagant for this Emperor, there is an In- 
fcription in Gruter , which begins thus : AETERNO 
IMPERATORI NOSTRO MAXI-MO OPTIMO- 
QVE PRINCIPI AVRELIO VALEPdO DIO - 
CLETIANO (/). The Epithets OPTIMVS MAXI- 
MVS, ufualiy alcribed to Jupiter , had indeed been 
applied to fome former Emperors s but AETER- 
NVS, as a perfonal Title, fecms to have been firft 
attributed to this Prince ; tho, like other ill Exam- 
ples, 
(a) Pro Cluent. cap. 15. (b) Ad tp. Fr. Lib. II. Ep. 5. 
(c) Saturnal. Lib. V. cap. 16. (d) Genetbliac. Maxim, cap. 16. 
(e) Ibid. cap. 10. (f) Pag. ccxxxix. 4. 
