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part in that exercife, as well as in thofe above men- 
tioned. And as he affedted to have all his adtions, 
however lhameful or ridiculous, publicly recorded ( i), 
this infcription might have been eredted in compliment 
to him under that charadler. . Mr. Hearne, who has 
publifhed this infcription, feems to think, that Corn- 
modus might there be ftiled eques fingularis^ like the 
Grecian and Trojan heroes in their lingle combats, 
who are defcribed by Homer, as /Vtoo-uV^ rg 
xvopircpi TTgTToiS'oTgs ( 2 ). But the infcription is dedicated 
Marti Campestri, which is a title given to that 
deity, not as a warrier, but as preliding over the 
public games in the Campus Martius at Rome. And 
agreably to this fenfe of the word Horace fais, 
Ludere qui nefcit, campeftribus abJUnet armis (3)- 
J. W. 
(1) Lamprid. pag. 50, 51. 
( 2 ) Praef. ad Gail, Neuburg. Hift, rer, Angl. pag. Uii. 
(3) A. P. V. 379. 
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