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fame ; but what was at fir ft a Rraenomen , became 
afterwards a Cognomen: as PRIMVS in the former 
Infcripdon. And the Cognomen often became here- 
ditary, and diftinguifhed different Branches of the fame 
Family which I take to be the Cafe here. One of. 
Horace’s Odes in fome Editions is infcribed to C. 
Marcius Cenfirinus [a) ; but Cenforinus often hands 
as a Family Name in Grater, and others. So like* 
wife in this Infcripdon DVM. CENSORINVS is 
laid to be Fill VS GEMELLI, that is GEMELLI 
CENSORINI. But as 1 do not find any other In- 
fiance of a Roman Name begining with the Syllable 
DVM. how that is to be read at Length, I cannot 
fay. Nor is there any thing particular in this 5 fince 
there ate feveral Names in Gruter , which occur but 
once, and are no where elfe to be found. This In- 
feription ends in the fame Manner, as the former. 
I {hall now procede to inquire breifly into the 
Defign and Ufe of thefe Plates. The antient Pagans 
had not only their national but domeflic Deities, 
whom they addreffed to in private, and fometimes 
carried their Images about with them, as their 
Guardians and Prote&ors ($). And it appears to have 
been a Cuftom among them to place their Images in 
Shrines, made in the Form of Temples, both for 
public and private Devotion. The Tabernacle of 
Moloch , mentioned in the A els of the Ayoftles {c) y 
is generally taken to have been of the former Sort. 
And Herodotus informs us, that the Aegyptians upon 
a folemn Day carried in Proceffion the Image of a 
Godefs, 
(a) Lib. iv. Carm. 8. (b) Ammian , Marcell, Lib. xxjj. c. 13,. 
(c) Chap. vn. v. 43. 
