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fuch combinations of letters in the fame word were 
long before not uncommon among the Romans, both 
on their coins and monuments ; yet I meet with but 
one inftance of it, where the two letters belono- to 
different words, as they do here, before the time of 
Severus ; and that was in the reign of Commodus, 
who was foon fucceeded by him. That monu- 
ment was eredted in the confulfhip of Apronianus 
and Bradua, whofe names are expreffed in the in- 
fcription (i). But in after times fuch ligatures were 
more common, fo that we meet with three or more 
letters fometimes combined in that manner (2). 
Fabretti obferves, that thefe eqmtes fingulares had 
a burying place alloted them at Rome, in the Via 
Labicana, not far from the fepulchre of the emprefs 
Helena. Several of their monuments have been 
found in that coemetery, adorned at the top with an 
human figure, lying on a couch j and below the in- 
Fription, a horfe with trappings, and a boy holding 
a whip. And if any fuch are met with elfewhere, 
they have, as he fuppofes, been removed from 
thence (3). Montfaucon has given us a draught of 
one of thofe monuments, which 'contains the in- 
fcription recited above (4), and anfwers to this de- 
fcription of Fabretti, both as to the human figure, 
and that of the horfe ; the former of which has a 
patera in the left hand, and a mafk is fufpended at 
each end of the couch •, and the boy, who is there 
( 1 ) Horjley^ Britann. Rom. Cumherl. Ivli. 
(2) See Britann. Rom. in the Table of ligatures, fag. 189, 
(.3) 'Ubifupra^ fag. ^60. 
(4} 7 ^- 
wanting, 
