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bafe. It has a pediment top, with a pine apple rlfing 
from the middle of the cornice, on each fide of 
which is a lion, and in the area of the pediment a 
kind of rofe. The infer iption, which is cut in the 
plane of the ftone, may be thus read : Cams Man- 
miis^ Can Jiliiis, Poliia trihu^ Secundus Polk?itifiuSj 
miles legionis vicefimae^ ajmoriim lii, Jiipaidiof'um 
XXXI, benejiciarius legati principalis^ htc Jit us eji. 
Number II. contains two inferiptions, and is in 
hight two feet feven inches and about a third, by ' 
two feet four inches and two thirds in breadth. It 
is not flat, as the former, but gently convex crof- 
ways, the lower part being divided into three panels ; 
on the two firft of which are the inferiptions, but the 
other feems never to have had any upon it. The 
uper part is ornamented with a pediment, in the 
area of which are the remains of a face with curled 
locks, and two fnakes under it ; and on the cornice 
two figures like dolphins. The firll infeription may 
be read thus : DHs Manibus. Placida annorum lv, 
curam agente conjuge annorum xxx. And the other 
in this manner : DHs Manibus. Deuccus annorum xv, 
curam agente patre. 
Number III. is fix feet eleven inches high, and 
about two feet broad above the bafe. It has alfo a pe- 
diment at the top, the area of which is filled with a 
large flower. The infeription, it exhibits, may be 
read in the following manner : Marcus Petronius, 
Liicii Jilius^ Menenia tribu^ Nxit annos xxxviii, 
jniJes legionis \ geminae^ militavit annos xviii, 
Jignifer fuit^ hie Jepultus eji. 
As thefe readings of the feveral inferiptions appear 
in general very plain and obvious ; I fiiall now pro- 
ceed to make a few obfervations, partly on the or- 
naments 
