C 499 II 
was confirmed in his father’s kingdom by a decree of 
the Roman fenate (i). A trA..>'TV v Av 
I thought it proper to take notice of this irtferi- 
ption, not only as it feems to clear up die fucceflion 
of the Bithyn'tan kings ; but like wife as it contains 
the name of a third prdident of the college, irV 
Delos, and fiiews the regard that was paid to it by 
the princes of different countries in yifia. ' > 
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1 . i. Si . *»J 
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XVII. A “Letter from M?\ IIca>ry Bakor. 
F. R. S. to the Prdident,. containing ' Ab- 
fraSls oj fever al Objervatims vf Auroras ' 
Boreales lately [een. ^ j r - '• 
SIR, 
Read June 28, ✓'"x n Monday the 23d offanuarj laft, 
1 7 -’ 0- fomc 1 tmufuat Appearances ' were ob- 
ferved in the bky, at London,, and. the Towns about 
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has given us the -imprefnon of an head upon a Giver 
tetradrachm, with this title placed over it, Nicomedes Epipbaxes rex 
KUomediae whom he takes to have, been the. grandfather of Pra- 
L V ■ Aebemened/hrp^ Tom. H. p. 2ojj. And Dr. Mead has fuch a 
co;n in his collection, with rhifr words 'on the reverfe, B 12 IAE 02 
EnMAXOT2 NI_KOMHAOr2. Whd^- Epiphads the 'cognomen ‘ 
ftands firft, as iffotnenmes does in anticnt_wnters : CuxOrat. e. 27. 
Anjmpreffion alfo of a fimilar coin, with the head on one GdejiticWve ' t 
fame legend on the other, may be feen among the Numifmata Pem- 
brofh, Par. II. tab. 69. Bat Vaillant fais, that he had not met with 
any ct>in, which had on it the head of EUcomedei Epipha?ies the 
fon of Prufias, to whom the infeription refers, which is cut on the 
ftone. Ubi fupra,pag. 3 5 j. 
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