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again refer to the Words Genio & Honor i. And 
they mention another Infcriprion, where aMiftake of 
the fame kind is found} viz. {a) 
HONOR I 
M.GAVI.M.F 
POP.SQVILLANI. 
EQJPVB.IIII.VIR.I.D 
I III. VIR. APVB 
CVRATORI.VICETINOR. 
APPARI TORES. ET 
LIMOCINCTI 
TRIBVNALIS.EIVS 
EQ^RQM, EQ.PVB. 
Thefe Words infer, that Lucius Rompeius, the 
Perfon to whofe Honour this Plate is inferib’d, was a 
Romm Knight, who had a Stipend from the Public 
The Roman Knights ferved at their own Expence till 
the Year of Rome 45 1, when their Horfes began firft 
to be maintain'd at the Expence of the Common' 
wealth ; and it appears, from various Infcriptions 
under the Emperors, that the W ords, Eques publicus * 
Equo publico donatus , or or nut us, &c. always mean 
a military Dignity* and muft be diftinguilhed from 
the Roman Knights towards the End of the Com- 
monwealth, who were a Degree of Citizens between 
the Senators and the Plebeians. 
Q.AER. PET. ALIM. 
It 
(a) Marm. Pifaur. p. 17. ». 38. 
