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T ESSE RAM. PAGANICAM 
L. VERATIVS. FELICISSI 
MVS. PATRONVS. PAGANIS 
PAGI (JTOLENTINES 
HOST I AS. LVSTR. ET. TESSER. 
AER. EX. VOTO. L.DD 
V.ID.MAI AS. FELICIT. (a). 
This is called tejfera paganica, as I imagine, from 
its intitling the pagani , or inhabitants of that town, 
to the annual claim of the Sacrifices therein men- 
tioned. And fo far it agreed with the nature of a 
public tejfera , which being lodged in the hands of 
the proper officer, authorized him to colled the fe- 
veral contributions affigned for fuch religious pur- 
pofcs. And of this latter fort I take the plate to 
have been, which makes the fubjed of our prefent 
inquiry 5 both the form and fize of it fuiting very 
well with fuch a defign, as it was portable, and 
ready to be produced, if occasion required. And 
agreably to this notion of the word tejfera the an- 
tient Glojfaries interpret tejferarius by y pet 
a feribe or clerk. 
As to the following word sediarvm, tho it 
no where elfe occurs, that 1 know of ; yet this, I. 
prefume, can be no juft objedion againft its being 
taken here for the name of a town, called Sediae: 
when it is confidered, how many inftances of the 
Yike nature are to be found in the inferiptions col- 
kded by Gruter and others, which give us the 
names 
( a J Append, num. 8 < 
