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may have served to facilitate the mystery of
responses or oracles. Eusebius, in the fourth
book of his Preparatio, cites a case in which
mention is made, before the Roman magi-
strates, of machines by which phantasmagoria
and oracular prestiges were played off, and
the shrine in the Temple of Fortune is so
disposed as to admit of such impostures.

On another base belonging to the Tem-
ple of Fortune was found a second inscrip-
tion.

TAVKO. STATILIO

TI. PLATILIO. AELIAN. COS.

L. STATIVS. FAVSTVS. PRO

SIGNO. QUOD. E. LEGE. FORTVNAE

AVGVSTAE. MINISTORVM. PONERE

DEBEBAT. REFERENTE. Q. POMPEIO. AMETHYSIO

QVAESTORE. BASIS. DVAS. MARMORIAS. DECREVE-

RVNT

PRO. SIGNO PONIRET

Several persons of the name of iElianus
were Consuls, but they are generally of a
period later than the destruction of Pompeii.
Statilius Taurus is also a name not unfre-
quent in the list of Consuls, but it is not
easy to say which, if any one of them, is
here named.

The mistakes ministorum for ministrorum,