[ r 35 ] 
And farther ftill, a Cumberland infcription, marked 
LI. in Horfeley, carries the pagan compliment to the 
fame emperor fomething higher *: 
DEABVS MATRIBVS T R A MARINIS 
ET NVMINI IMPERATORIS ALEXAN- 
D R I A V G^f S T I E T IVLIAE MAMMAEAE 
MATRI AVGVSTI NOSTRI ET CASTRO- 
RVM TOTIQ. DOM VI DIVINAE 
AETERNAEQ. VEXILLATIO Pofuit. 
The pafiages, which feem to favour the opinion I 
mentioned, of this emperor’s tendency to Chriftiani- 
ty, are thefe of Lampridius, fcil. 
Judaeis privilegia refervavit : Chriftianos efle pa£ 
fus eft. 
Matutinis horis, in larario fuo (in quo et divos 
principes, fed optimos et elecftos, et animas fan&iores, 
in queis & Apollonium, et, quantum fcriptor fuorum 
temporum dicit, Chriftum, Abraham, et Orpheum, 
et hujufcemodi Deos habebat, ac majorum effigies) 
rem divinam faciebat. 
Chrifto templum facere voluit, eumque inter Deos 
recipere. 
Quum Chriftiani quendam locum, qui publicus fu- 
erat, occupaflent, contra Popinarii dicerent, fibi eum 
deberi, refcripfit, Melius efle, ut quomodocunque il- 
lic Deus colatur, quam Popinariis dedatur. 
Clamabatque ftepius, quod a quibufdam five Ju- 
daeis five Chriftianis audierat, et tenebat : idque per 
praeconem, quum aliquem emendaret, dici jubebat, 
QVOD TIBI FIERI NON VIS ID ALTERI NE FECERIS. 
* This, as far as we know for certain, is the only infcription 
in Britain made under this emperor, except that we are now dif- 
courling of. 
Quam 
