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Brigantia, Cods, Matunus^ SetlocemUy and others* 
which may be feen in Horfley ( i ). 
The laft line of the infeription acquaints us v/ith 
the caufe of eredling this altar, which was the per- 
formance of fome vow, formerly made by Peregri- 
nns. And it is not improbable, that he had laboured 
under fome bodily diforder, which occafioned his 
going to Bath for the benefit of the waters, which 
in the time of the Romans were in fo high efiieem. 
And the good fuccefs, which he met with by the ufe 
of them, may be concluded from the tenor of the 
infeription, wherein he makes his acknowledgement 
to the deities above mentioned, for the benefit he had 
received thro their favour, in confequence of his ad- 
drefies to them for that purpofe. For as it was a 
common notion of the antient pagans, that all hu- 
man affairs were under the direction of their deities ; 
fo in any danger or misfortune they ufed to folicite 
them for releif, with vows and promifes of erecting 
altars and other buildings to their honour, in cafe of 
a favourable anfwer. Which, when performed, they 
were faid Votum folvere, as the letters v. s. here im- 
ply. 
/ 
1 1. The other infeription, on the lower altar, when 
exprelfed in words at length, may be read in the fol- 
lowing manner : 
Sulevis Sulims Scultor^ Bruceti Jilius^ facrum fe~ 
cit libens merito. 
(i) Brit. Rom. hid. cap. I. Spon has publiflied afma]! treatife 
upon this fubjedt, with the following title : Ignotorum atque ob~ 
feurorum deorum arat* Studio Jacobi Sponii. Lugd, 1676, iimo. 
P p 2 That 
