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the (hape of ir, and the angles at each end, Teem to 
be very well adapted. The town, where it was 
dug up, is by Fabretti called Licentia ; which he 
fuppofes to have taken its name from the rivet Hi- 
gentia , that runs by it. Horaces farm therefore was 
probably not very far from thence, fince he fpeaks 
of it as near that river, when he fais: 
Me quotiens rejicit gelidns Higentia rivus 
Quern Mandela bibit , rugofus frigore pagus: 
Quid fentire ■put as , quid credis, amice, precar i q ? 
The antiquity of this infeription, together with 
its fmgularity, made me think it not unworthy the 
notice of this learned Society. For tho we meet 
with two inferiptions, one in Gruter , r and the other 
in Rtne(ius*, to the honour of Flora jointly with 
other deities ; yet this is the only one I can find, 
which is addreffed to her alone. And as to the 
manner of explaining the feveral parts of it, that is 
left to every one to judge of, as he pleafes. 
G. C. 
Decemb. 20, 1 749- 
John Ward. 
’ E pifi. Lib. i. XVIII. 103; 
1 Fag. cxxi. nuvi. 1 . 
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