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The letters in general of this infcription are badly 
lhaped ; but in the third word particulaVly the cha- 
racters are more perplexed than in the reft. The firft 
letter is the Grecian fmall delta ; the fecond I take to 
be the little ro of the Greeks reverfed [yiz. with the 
long ftroke on the right, inftead of its being as ufual 
on the left hand) : the other letters are more truly- 
delineated, tho’ fomewhat crowded : fo that I take 
this word to be Driuli , a name, which I do not re- 
coiled; to have met with before : but if the fecond 
letter (hall appear to the learned to be more likely- 
intended for the Greek charader », or ou , this word 
will then be Douiuli, or Duilii , a name very ho- 
nourable among the Romans. F ftands for Jilius , 
as ufual ; and the two laft words are beyond doubt 
Deo Marti. The language is Roman ; but the A, 
d, A, « (which in the words Modejlus and Deo is 
ufed for the Latin e), and the ro, or <j, are proper to 
the Grecian alphabet. The R in Marti is fingular, 
intended for P, the Greek capital Ro ; but inftead of 
th« femicircular part joined to the upright, thro’ the 
incorrednefs of the engraver, it has a demi-hexagon, 
like a canopy, over the upright line. The o is 
oval, not round as with the Latins > and the A has 
no tranfverfe ftroke. The other letters are common 
to the Greeks and Romans. 
That this Latin infcription Ihould have fo much of 
the Greek character is remarkable. It is well known, 
that the Druids ufed the Greek letters. Whether the 
perfon, who confecrated this patera to Mars, might 
intruft the engraving to one of the Druid fed, or 
whether the engraver was one of the auxiliary co- 
horts and natives of Greece, as the Thracian and 
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