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ROME. 155
much different Explication of Livy from
what Lissius has done. This Figure was
superscrib’d BA. FO. NI. from whence
Fabretti concludes, that it was a Monu-
ment created to the Gladiator Bato,who
after having succeeded in Two Com-
bats, was kill’d in the Third, and ho-
nourably Interr’d by Order of the Em-
peror Caracalla. The manner of Pun-
ctuation after each Sillable is to be met
with in other Antique Infcriptions. I
confess I could never learn where this
Figure is now to be seen, but I think it
may serve as an Instance of the great Un-
certainty of this Science of Antiquities. *
In a Palace of Prince Cefarini I saw
Busts of all the Antonine Family, which
were dug up about Two Years since,
■ not far from Albano, in a Place where
is fuppos’d to have stood a Villa of Mar-
cus Aurelius. There are the Heads of
Antoninus Pius, the Fauftina's, Marcus
Aurelius, Lucius Verus, a young Com-
modus, and Annius Verus, all incompa-
rably well cut.
Tho’the Statues that have been found
among the Ruins of Old Rome are al-
ready very numerous, there is no questi-
on but Posterity will have the Pleasure
of
* Vid. Fabr. de Column^ Trajani.
much different Explication of Livy from
what Lissius has done. This Figure was
superscrib’d BA. FO. NI. from whence
Fabretti concludes, that it was a Monu-
ment created to the Gladiator Bato,who
after having succeeded in Two Com-
bats, was kill’d in the Third, and ho-
nourably Interr’d by Order of the Em-
peror Caracalla. The manner of Pun-
ctuation after each Sillable is to be met
with in other Antique Infcriptions. I
confess I could never learn where this
Figure is now to be seen, but I think it
may serve as an Instance of the great Un-
certainty of this Science of Antiquities. *
In a Palace of Prince Cefarini I saw
Busts of all the Antonine Family, which
were dug up about Two Years since,
■ not far from Albano, in a Place where
is fuppos’d to have stood a Villa of Mar-
cus Aurelius. There are the Heads of
Antoninus Pius, the Fauftina's, Marcus
Aurelius, Lucius Verus, a young Com-
modus, and Annius Verus, all incompa-
rably well cut.
Tho’the Statues that have been found
among the Ruins of Old Rome are al-
ready very numerous, there is no questi-
on but Posterity will have the Pleasure
of
* Vid. Fabr. de Column^ Trajani.