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grandeur and fafety of princes. And in others are 
feen the figures of feveral temples erected by him, 
fome of them in a circular form like the Pantheon , 
with the legend Paci. 
And to thefe happy times Mr. de Boze refers the 
curious gold medallion mentioned above, which re- 
prefents Tetricus as crowned with laurel, and drefied 
in the toga palmata , or confular robe, which was alfo 
worn in triumphs. In his right hand he holds an 
olive branch, and a fcepter with the Roman eagle 
on the top in his left, and round his image is this 
infcription, Imperator Tetricvs Avgvstvs. 
But the reverfe, if it has one, mull remain unknown; 
lince the medal is fo fixed in the gold box, which 
contains it, that they cannot be feparated without in- 
dangering both. And the radiated circle of gold, 
with which it is incompafied, is defigned only to 
adorn and inlarge it. 
He therefore proceeds with the hiftory, and fur- 
ther obferves, that Claudius gained a moft fignal vi- 
ctory! over the Goths , in which three hundred and 
twenty thoufand of them were llain, and two thou- 
fand tranfport veflels taken. But as this vi&ory had 
been greatly facilitated by a peftilence, which fpread 
thro the enemies army, it feized likewife the Ro- 
man forces ; and Claudius himfelf died of it at Sir- 
mium in Pannojiia , in the third year of his reign, 
and fifty-fixth of his age (i). 
His 
(i) ZofwiuSi Lib. i. DexippuSj De legationibus. Pcrphyrius , in 
Vit. Plotini, Bafil. J591. 
