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Is more rare ftill to find thefe feemingly trifling cups 
and dilhes infcribed to a particular deity ; but moft 
uncommon to fee them diftinguifhed by the names 
of the donor and his father, as well as the name of 
the deity to which they were dedicated. This patera, 
found at Boflens, about three miles north- eaft of St. 
Michael’s Mount, is a Angular infiance of the latter 
ufage, and has the following infcription engraved on 
its bottom, in fhape, and fize, and circular line, as 
i- 
Which I read thus, till better information. Lroius 
Mode flu a Driuli (or Douiuli ) f (for Jilius) Deo 
Marti. 
The two firft words are very plain (tho’, like the 
whole, a mixture of Greek and Roman characters), 
end not rare in Roman hifiory. Livius is too well 
known to need any comment ; and as it is well 
known, that the virtues oftentimes gave names to 
perfons, it is as certain, that modefiy among the 
refi had that privilege. Sometimes the perfon, who 
had this name, was called Verecundus \_Diis Manibus 
Verecundi , in a Roman monument at Skirway in 
Scotland ; Horfley , 199: and the fame name is to be 
traced in another monument. Ibid. Plate 64.. N°. X.] 
Here it is Modejlus , of which we have alfo inftances, 
as Pubhus JE/ius Modeflus Prtzje£lus y who dedicated 
an altar to Hercules, Ibid. PL 16. N°. XLI.; and 
Caius Murrius Modejlus miles in Somerfedhire, Ibid. 
PL 71. N°. II. 
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