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JHius^ Palatina (tribu), *vafcularius (i), dica£, dedi- 
cat (2). Befides, it can fcarce be fuppofed, that he 
could have been guilty of fuch a miftake, as to omit 
the letter p in writing the name of his own art, had 
that really been his intention. 
The words Sacrvm fecit, in the laft line, are 
of the fame import with dedicavit ; in which fenfe 
likewife facrwn alone is often ufed. And fometimes 
the reafon of the dedication is added, as: Sacrum, 
*ucto fufceptOy fecit, in Gruter (3). But that not be- 
ing mentioned here muft remain unknown. 
There is nothing faid in cither of thefe infcriptions, 
which can afford any light towards fettling the time, 
when they were ereded. But fo far as appears from 
the form of the letters, they may not improbably be 
fuppofed of fomewhat a later date, than that men- 
tioned above (4), as found near the fame place. 
(1) VafcuJarius was an artificer, who made veflels of any fort 
of metal, but cheifly of plate. Cic. in Vsrr, iv. cap, 24, Leg. 20. 
§. 2. D. de praefcript. verb, 
(2) Clafs, i. Nu7nb.2^Z. 
( 3 ) Ixxxii. I. and MLxxil. 8. 
{4.) See pag, 28^. 
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