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Now among the members of this college mention 
is made of one Pefcennius Niger. And as thol'c 
Infcriptions are dated in the fourth confulfhip of 
Commodus and fecond of Aufidius Vi 6 loriniis y 
which anfwers to the year 183 of our common aera ; 
Muratori , who has fince republifhed them, fais in 
a note, that this is the fame Pefcennius y who ten 
years afterwards was advanced to the empire. But 
here, as Mr. de Boze very accurately remarks, he 
has not obferved the difference of the praenome?i t 
which in all the remaining medals of this emperor 
is Cains , but in both the infcriptions ‘ Publius nor 
taken care, as he might have done, to lupport his opi- 
nion, notwithflanding that difference in the prae- 
nomen. For Commodus , who has ufually the prae- 
nomen of Marcus., has fometimes that of Lucius > 
and Get a either Lucius or ‘Publius indifferently j as 
Aemilian has Cains and Marcus. Thefe are the 
only inftances, which have occurred to him ; but 
he thought it proper to mention them, that if any 
new medal of Pefcennius fhould be found with 
Publius as the praenomen , it might not be rejected 
meerly on that account. 
For a further illuftration of his family he refers to 
fome paffages in Spartian , who relates, that in the 
gardens of Commodus at Rome the figure of Pefcen - 
nius in mofaic work v/as placed among thofe of the' 
raoft intimate freinds of that emperor, as perform- 
ing a faerifice t dlfis (1)* The fame writer likewifc 
fais, that; fix perfons of the name of Pefcennius 
were _ 
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( 1 ) Tramevt. inferi/t. tratr:'Arval: p:‘p6: ‘it) 
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