on some ancient metallic Arms , and Utensils. 
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SECTION I. Of the Copper Instruments. 
§ i. Miscellaneous historical Observations. 
The articles belonging to this head were seven in number; 
namely, a Lituus, a Spear-head, a Sauce-pan, a Scabbard, and 
three Celts. 
i. The lituus: its figure is shown by the drawing, Tab. XI. 
fig. 1. It is well known to have been a military musical in- 
strument of the Romans. Several classical writers mention it, 
as Horace, in ode i. 
“ Multos castra juvant, et lituo tubas 
“ Permistus sonitusT 
And Virgil mentions the lituus in celebrating Misenus, who 
served Hector in the Trojan war, and afterwards iEneas, in 
the office of trumpeter : 
*• Illi Misenum in littore sicco, 
u Ut venere, vident indigna morte peremptum ; 
" Misenum Hiohden, quo non praestantior alter 
“ AEre ciere viros, martemque accendere cantu : 
“ Hectoris hie magni fuerat comes ; Hectora circum 
“ Et lituo pugnas insignis obi bat et hasta/' 
I En . lib. vi. v. 1 6q. 
And again in the Georgies, lib. iii. v. 182. 
“ Primus equi labor est, animos atque arma videre 
“ Bellantum, lituosque pati, tractuque gementem 
“ Ferre rotam, et stabulo fraenos audire sonantesT 
The lituus is supposed by judicious antiquaries to have been 
adopted from the barbarous nations ; and that the figure of it 
was intended by the barbarians to resemble a snake, the prin- 
. cipal object of their religious worship, and of the most sacred 
