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Gratitude for fingular Benefits received. Patrons and 
Clients were in the earlieft Times of the Common- 
wealth ; but, under the Emperors, Xnfcriptions flhew 
us frequently, that Cities and Nations chofc for their 
Patron fome eminent Roman Citizen in Favour with 
the Prince, on whom they often conferred great 
Honours. 
T. GRAE. TROPHIMVS. IND. FAC, 
Thefe Words on the Cornice our Authors won- 
dered to find, as it was unufual for any but the mod 
eminent Painters and Sculptors to put their Names, 
and that only to the mod famous and perfed of their 
Works. Whence they conjedure, that this Titus 
Graecus Trophimus of lndujtria, might be not only 
the Engraver of the Infcription, but likewife the 
Sculptor of fome Image to which this may have been 
the Pedeftal. 
Thefe Gentlemen, who are Authors of the Mar- 
mora Taurinenjia , went to this Village of Monteu in 
the Autumn of the Year 1743. where they found 
many Infcriptions, with the Names of various Ma- 
giftrates both civil and ecclefiaflical 5 which were cer- 
tain Proofs that fome confidcrable City had been in 
that Place formerly: And returning thither theAutumn 
following, they found a broken Stone 5 whereon, by 
putting the Pieces together, they could plainly read, 
that there had been decreed to a Perfon named 
Cocceia , at the Expence of the Public, a Statue AB. 
IND. which they interpret Ab Induftrienjibus , and 
fuppofe to mean the Citizens of Induftria. 
A a aa 
. . . cocceia 
