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in which the word PAGI is added to M AGISTER; 
in the fame manner as we meet with magifier 
collegii , 'via, and the like. But the former of thefe 
was as late as the reign of Tiberius-, and the time 
of the latter uncertain, fo that nothing can be con- 
cluded from it. And there are likewifc fcverai 
infcriptions, in which MAGISTERand MAGISTRI 
hand alone, without the addition of any explana- 
tory word. But then it appears either from the 
defign of thofe infcriptions, the number of per- 
fons mentioned, or fomc other circumftance rela- 
ting to them, that their office was of a different 
nature ; fome few inftances of which I fhall pre- 
fently have occafion to mention. From thefe con- 
Bderations therefore I have been led to conclude, 
that the fenfe here affigned to the word magifier , 
as it refpefts this infcription, is the mod probable. 
That the characters II. Band for anni fecundi , 
the date of the time, during which this T)rofus 
had then held that office, is confirmed by feveral 
infcriptions publifhed by Gruter. In one of which 
we have MAG. ANNI. V i$ in another MAGI- 
STRI. ANNI. VI k; and in two others MAG. 
ANNI. PRIMIl, where the word denoting the 
time is expreffed at length. As thefe different ways 
therefore of expreffing the time relate to perfons, 
who all bore that title, tho not the fame office. 
* Pag. liv. num. i.* 
k Pag. xxxvi. num. j. 
1 Pag. xxxni. num. io. xxxv. 5. 
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