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clearly continues the fenfe, and is of courfe moll 
perfectly confonant to the tenor of the infcription. 
IX. 
What has been obferved of the laft mentioned 
chara&er is equally applicable to the eighth and twen- 
tieth elements of the fame line. They are both in- 
dubitably Mem. This, not only by the powers of 
the letters with which they are immediately connedted, 
but likewife by what has been already advanced, is ren- 
dered indifputably clear. ’Tis worthy obfervation, 
that M. l’Abbe Fourmont was the firft (20) who took 
this character for He ; and pretended, abfurdly enough, 
to deduce it from the Eftrangelo form of that ele- 
ment. 
X. 
With regard to the laft word but one of the in- 
fcription, CfrpyOOD, or O’SpyOOa, it feems to be 
compofed of the infcparable particles, D> D, and 
the participle or CD’SpyO, tortvosi, in- 
FLEXI, TORTE NAVIGANTES, Or HVC ET ILLVC 
agitati. This therefore may be appofitely enough 
rendered, tanqvam ex iis qvi hvc et illvc 
agitantvr, inflexo cvrsv (vel itinere) jac- 
tantvr, torte navigant, &c. It may alfo be 
tranflated, with fufficient propriety, qvvm hvc et 
illvc agitati fuerint, qvvm torte naviga- 
VERINT,&C. WHEN THEY SHALL BE TOSSED (upon 
(20) Saggt di Dijfertazlon. Accadmich. bY. di Cor ton. Tom. 
III. p. 90. In Roma, 1741.' 
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