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any deity, as Concord , Flenty , Feace, and others, 
any thing more is fignified, than addrefles made to 
them on the account of what is there exprefifed, and 
hopes of its being granted to. the public. This he 
illuftrates from feveral inftances of imperial medals, 
which need not be here recited. And he further 
obferves from the hiftorians of thofe times, that 
Pefcennius , at the begining of his reign, might think 
it no difficult matter to have adjufted matters with 
Severus upon terms advantageous to himfelf. 
The filver medallion mentioned above, Fig. 4. has 
like wife the head of Fefcennius , crowned with laurel; 
and a Greek infeription round it thus abbreviated, 
ATTOK KAICAP Y n6CK6 NirPU A. that is, 
Imperatori Caefari Caio Fefcennio Nigro JuJio. 
On the reverfe is an eagle handing on a club, with 
the legend nPONOI A ©6UN, Frovidentia c Deorum\ 
which is found alfo upon the medals of his prede- 
celfor Fertinax , with whom he is compared by hi- 
ftorians both for his civil and military virtues. And 
Mr. de Boze apprehends, that as the eagle and club 
are the ufual lymbols of Greek medals ftruck at 
Tyre, this might probably have been coined there, 
either in the year 193, the firft of his reign, or at 
the begining of the following year ; that is, before 
the two defeats, which he received, firft near Cyzicus 
in the Hellefpont , and after that between Nicaea 
and Cius cities of Bithynia. For then the cities, 
which Severus had artfully indeavoured to draw over 
to his intereft, declared for him ; more from a jea- 
lofy of their neighbours, as Herodian obferves, than 
from any diflike to Pefcennius (1). This revolt was 
begun 
(l) Lib. III. cap. 2. 
