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fignify through difufe. In relation to which I would 
beg leave to obferve, that there are indeed fome paf- 
fages in the Roman writers, which may feem to fa- 
vour fuch a fenfe. So 'Turpilius the poet : 9 $uid rnihi 
vellem, ex infolentia nefciebam (i). And Cicero: 
Non J'uperbia , fed iftius difputationis infolentia , atque 
earnm rerum infcitia feci (2). And again: Moveor 
loci infolentia , quod t ant am caufam dico intra dorne- 
fiicos parietes (3).’ But in each of thefe places, and 
fome others, which might be mentioned, the word 
infolentia refers to what never had been ufedj and not 
what ceafed to be fo, as the fenfe would here require. 
Betides, it does not feem to fuit with the participle 
erutum , with which it is joined. For tho a building 
may be faid to fall down, and come to ruin, through 
negledt or difufe ; yet it is not, I think, ufual to fay, 
that it was pulled down or demolifhed, meerly by 
length of time, or from want of care to fupport it. 
The Latin word commonly ufed in that cafe is not 
erutum or dirutum , but collapfum. And fo we find 
it expreffed in another of our Britifli infcriptions : 
* Templum olim vetu/late conlapfum Gains Julius Pita - 
nus, provinciae praefes, reftituit (4). 
This coemetery therefore, as I imagine, had been 
plundered, and reduced to a ruinous Hate, by fome 
illegal a£ts of fraud or violence. Nor does this feem 
to have been a very uncommon cafe, notwithfland- 
ing 
( 1 ) dp ad Nonium in voce Infolens. 
(2) De orat. Lib. I. cap. 22. 
( 3 ) Pro Dejotar. cap. 2 . 
(\) Britann. Roman. Cumber l. xxxiv. See likewife Northumb. 
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