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F lor alia . For that feflival was not obferved till the 
year of the city 5* *13, when the expenfe of it was 
ordered to be paid out of the fines levied on thole 
perfons, who had converted the public lands to 
their own ufe, for feeding their cattle 3. The 
memory of which is yet preferved on a coin (truck 
that year, having on one fide the Genius of Rome : 
and on the other a fheep, as an emblem of the 
manner, by which that money was raifed ; with 
the legend M POBLIC 1 VS MALEOLVS, 
the name of one of the aediles, who had the care 
of the coinage 11 . And the fame year alfo he with 
his brother Lucius Foblicius , the other aedile, creeled 
a temple in honour of the godefs l lor a , near to 
the great circus'. However the Floralia were not 
afterwards conftantly obferved, but only when the 
fealon was bad, and feemed to threaten a fcarcity 
of provifions. But in the year 580 k , by a decree 
of the fenate, they were ordered to be celebrated 
annually, upon the fourth of the kalends of May, 
and the three following days f which ended with 
the firfl of that month. 
TI, the two firft letters of the praenomen of the 
perfon mentioned in the infeription, are the ufuaL 
abbreviation of Tiberius j as a fingle T is of Titus™. 
6 Ovid. Fafi. Lib. v. v. 279. 
h See Vail! ant Fam. Rom. in Poblicia, num. 1. 
* Tacit. Anna l . Lib. ii. cap. 49. 
k See Pighii Annaks ad ann. 513, 580. 
1 Ovid. Fafi. Lib v. v. 327, 183. 
m Ta ct. Prob. de not. Roman. 
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