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LI. An attempt to explain an antient Roman 
infer iption } cut upon a Jlone lately found at 
Bath. By John Ward, LL.D. Rhet. Prof. 
Gref, and V. P. R. S. 
Read Nov. 22, A COPY of this infeription was firft 
* 753 ' JLX communicated to this Society by Mr. 
Henry Baket\ who received it in a letter from Joh?2 
Browning Efq; dated the fourth of July laft. And the 
Society being then pleafed to refer it to my further con- 
federation, fcveral other copies of it were in a few days 
fent me by my freinds from Bath , and other places. 
But upon comparing them one with another, I found 
they all differed in fome refpeds ; excepting two only, 
one of which had been copied from the other. And 
therefore, as I could not by this means fettle the rea- 
ding to my fatisfadion, Dr. Richard Davies the phy- 
fician being then in London , 1 acquainted him with 
the affair ; who was fo obliging, as to promife me, 
that upon his return to Bath he would procure for 
me an exad copy from his own infpedion. And ac- 
cordingly he applied himfelf for that purpofe to the 
ingenious flatuary at Bath> Mr. Prince Hoare ; who 
apprehending that a caft of it in plaiffer of Paris 
might exprefs both the form of the letters, and the 
defeds of them, in their prefent date, with greater 
exadnefs than a writen copy, was fo kind as to take 
one off from the flone ; which I received afterwards 
from Dr. Davies. 
The flone was difeovered upon the twenty-fecond 
of June lad, about five feet under ground, in digging 
the cellar of a houfe, which was rebuilding at the 
lower 
