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That the firft word Svlevis denotes a name given 
' to certain rural godeffes, called Suleuae, is plain from, 
an infcription found on a ftone at Rome, and pu- 
blilhed by Fabretti, in which they are joined with 
Campejires. Moft of thofe female deities, ^vhich 
confided of a plurality, whether benevolent or hurt- 
ful, are commonly reprefented as three in number. 
Such were the Eumenides^ Gorgons^ Graces^ Harpyes^. 
Hefperides, Sirens, Sibylh, and fome others mentioned 
by Fabretti ( 1). And agreably to this notion three 
female figures in a group, cut on done, have been 
found in three different places at Homefteeds, a Ro- 
man dation in Northumberland, and publidicd by 
Horlley (2). And tho no infcriptions now remain, 
to inform us whom they were defigned to reprefent,tlie 
dones being very much broken ; yet by their feveral 
attributes they all appear to be deities, or their at- 
tendants. But in the draught of the done given us» 
by Fabretti, three female figures are exhibited in a 
liting podure, and under them three male figures 
Itanding, with an altar placed between them, and a 
fwine prepared for facrifice j and below this fculpture 
dands the infcription, in the words following ; 
SVLEVIS-ET-CAMPESTRIBVS-SACRVM 
L-AVRELIVS’QyiNTVS > LEG-VILX GEMINAE 
VOTVM-SOLVIT-LAETVSLIBENS 
DEDICAVIT-VIIII-K-SEPTEMBRE-BRADVA-ET 
VARO COS (3) 
(1) De Aquis et AquaeduSi. in Graev. Thefaur. antiquitat. 
Rom. Tom. iv. p. 1733. 
(2) Brit. Rom. JS/orthumb. xlviii, xlix, 1 . 
(3) That infcription was afterwards republlflied by Spon, in his 
Mi [cell, erudit. antiq.p. 107 ; tho not altogether with his ufual ac- 
curacy, as Fabretti elfewhere complains, hifcript. antiq. etc. p. 690. 
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