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Chap. XII: Museum - Academy della Crusca - Etruscan Language - Ancient Dialects of Italy - Departure from Florence - Prato - Pistoia - Lucca, its History - Its Baths
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CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. XII
tisvMAS. COPIAS. CARTACINIENSIS. PRAE-
SENTED. maxvmod DICTATORED. OLORVM.
IN ALTOD MARID PVGNandod vicet . . .
navEIS. Cepet. CVM SOCIEIS SEPTEMR . . . .
TRIREMOSQVE NAVEIS XX AVROM. captoM.
NVMEI, &c. &c. &c. DC: argenTOM. CAPTOM.
PRAEDA NVMEI .... CAPTOM AES
PONDOD.
This inscription is of the year of Rome 494,
but it is conjectured that the orthography under-
went some slight alterations in the reign of the
Emperor Claudius, when the original column,
which had been damaged by time, was removed,
and a new one erected in its place, with the
ancient inscription engraved upon it. The let-
ters and words in small print were inserted con-
jecturally by Lipsius, to supply the voids which
time and accident have occasioned in the origi-
nal. In correct Latin it would run thus:
Legiones, maximusque magistrates castris effugiunt. Mace-
lam pugnando cepit—inque eodem magistrate prospere rem
navibus mari Consul primus gessit classesque navales primus
ornavit cumque iis navibus classes punicas omnes paratissi-
mas copias Carthaginienses praesente maximo dictatoie illo-
rum in alto mari pugnando vicit . . . naves cepit cum sociis
septiremes triremesque naves xx captum nummi ....
argentum captum, &e. &c. &c.
The following specimens are taken from the
CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. XII
tisvMAS. COPIAS. CARTACINIENSIS. PRAE-
SENTED. maxvmod DICTATORED. OLORVM.
IN ALTOD MARID PVGNandod vicet . . .
navEIS. Cepet. CVM SOCIEIS SEPTEMR . . . .
TRIREMOSQVE NAVEIS XX AVROM. captoM.
NVMEI, &c. &c. &c. DC: argenTOM. CAPTOM.
PRAEDA NVMEI .... CAPTOM AES
PONDOD.
This inscription is of the year of Rome 494,
but it is conjectured that the orthography under-
went some slight alterations in the reign of the
Emperor Claudius, when the original column,
which had been damaged by time, was removed,
and a new one erected in its place, with the
ancient inscription engraved upon it. The let-
ters and words in small print were inserted con-
jecturally by Lipsius, to supply the voids which
time and accident have occasioned in the origi-
nal. In correct Latin it would run thus:
Legiones, maximusque magistrates castris effugiunt. Mace-
lam pugnando cepit—inque eodem magistrate prospere rem
navibus mari Consul primus gessit classesque navales primus
ornavit cumque iis navibus classes punicas omnes paratissi-
mas copias Carthaginienses praesente maximo dictatoie illo-
rum in alto mari pugnando vicit . . . naves cepit cum sociis
septiremes triremesque naves xx captum nummi ....
argentum captum, &e. &c. &c.
The following specimens are taken from the