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An Account os they &c.

Mother Tongue ; and ’tis to this Reason that one
must impute the Faults we meet with in several
Latin Insc'riptions, and especially in Epitaphs at
Rome, tho’ they are certainly of the belt Ages os
the Latin Tongue. But if we extend the Term
Antique, which Monsieur Span makes use of on this
occasion, without determining the same to the
last period of the fecond Antiquity, which may reach
the Eighth Century, inclufive, what Language
slrall we find in several Monuments of the Fourth
or Fifth ?

X
O.

To be convinc'd of this Truth, let us but cass
our Eyes on the several Epitaphs that Bofius hat
collected in the severalCatacombs, wherein Gram-
mar appears in a molt hideous disorder. I’ll content
my self to quote one of the Year 40g. not only as
, - a Specimen of the rest,but also to correct Be/&r,and
nd Cde ori^' * three other Antiquaries, which have given it to
& progr. '
Ling. vulg. We see it still on a piece of Marble of the
c. 20. P. ~
Aring. J. 4.
c. 25. Th.
Reinesius
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l97- NOBEMBRES, CONSULATU ANICIBASSI ET
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SEPTE' EXUPERANTIUS MARITUS SEFIFO
UXORI DULCISSIME SIBI ET POSTERISQUE
fSUIS HOC TUMULUM FECIT.

Arhe Figure which is near the Name of Christ,
- ^ikely a Saw, but see the Conjectures of Ant.
^j^Bofius, John Sever ani, and others, who have written
on the Catacombs.

the World, very different from its genuine dress.

Pavement of the Church fSt. Zfpw, where it was
transported from the neighbouring Catacombs.



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