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or fome other divinity, or divinitys whom Caraufius worshiped. The altar could not of Oriuna, be dedicated to fortune for the preservation of and a filver Caraufius and Diana, or any other divinity; her in the but must have been for the prefervation of king's caOriuna, the wife of Caraufius. That Cabinet. raufius had a wife and fon, is not only made very plane by Count Zabarella in his Il Carofio, printed at Padua in 1659, but appears from the medal mentioned by Genebrier, p. 31, where the Legend is Principi Juventut. To the prince of the youth. The X a young man standing, with a legionary enfign in his right hand, and a fpear in the left. This cannot represent Caraufius. It is mere fancy to fay, that Caraufius thereby would have it thought he had paffed through all the degrees which lead to the empire; or, he did it for his favorite Alectus; which are the notions of Haym the Roman. The title, Prince of the youth, was never given to any but the emperor's fons, when they were made Cafars, les jeunes Cefars deftines a l'empire. But Caraufus was made emperor at once, Imperator in Galliis creatus, without even paffing through the dignity of Cæfar. In fum, from the altar and medal it is moft certain, that Oriuna was the wife of Caraufius, and queen or empress of England; and that the Prince of the youth

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on the reverse of fome Caraufus's medals, represents their infant fon *.

Another Roman monument in Mr. Bannerman's poffeffion, which he found in Lewis, is a beautiful altar, adorned in baffo relievo with animals, flowers, and other ornaments, and that has these words upon the plane.

Jovi Optimo Maximo

et

Numinibus Augusti

P. Helvius Pertinax
pofuit.

*Doctor Kennedy is the author of the differtation on Oriuna. Mr. Foot, has made this gentleman one of his characters in his dramatic Satyr, called Tafte --- Enter Novice. Where's Mr. Bruh, my dear Brufh, am I too late? May I lofe my Otho, or be tumbled from my Phaeton the first time I jehup my forels, if I have not made more hafte than a young furgeon to his first labor. But the lots, the lots, my dear Brufh, what are they? I'm upon the rack of impatience till I fee them, and in a fever of defire till I poffefs them. Here's a curiofity. A medal of Oriuna; got for me by Doctor Mummy, etc. Now upon this I obferve, that if the Doctor has a paffion for antiques, and hath been deceived in any of his purchases from Carmine and Puff, yet this can be no ground for ridiculing him; as a paffion for the things of antiquity is laudable; and that he might be a very good man, tho he fanfyed the queen of England was Diana ; or had been miftaften in a buft. Vice and falfe wit are the things to be ridiculed in comedy. Any degree of natural weakness is entitled to our compaffion. And, as to weakness, or natural folly, a man may have lefs of it than perhaps Mr. Foot has, tho cheated by an auctioneer; or out fometimes in judging of a medal.

Thus

Thus Pertinax was afterwards emperor, and the greatest, wifeft, and best man of the age he lived in, as Herodian, who knew him, informs us. It was for this reafon the Prætorian guard affaffinated him. As to the time when he erected this altar to Jupiter, and the guardian Gods for the preservation of Commodus, it must have been between 186 and 190 of Chrift, because he was fent over to Britain in 186, and recalled in 190. This beautiful altar is intire, and has not the leaft fracture. The letters are exactly and finely drawn, and all the facrificing inftruments and veffel are reprefented on its fides.

Another roman monument in this country difcovered, that I faw, is a marble urn; the hollow of which is eighteen inches, and the diameter, eight. Its body, foot, and cover, are most beautifully formed. The happy in the Elyfian fields are finely reprefented on one fide of this urn; and these words on the other,

D. M.
Æmilia.

V. Lupi. F.

V. 22. An. 3. D.

et

Tanti in conftantiis

Ut fuam ætatem fuperabat.

That

A refle

xion.

That is,

To the infernal Gods. The ashes of Æmilia, the daughter of Virius Lupus. She lived twenty two years and three days: And fo ftrictly did the obferve every relation, natural and adventitious, that fhe exceeded all her contemporarys in virtue and piety. Admirable character!

Here is another Roman lady that will rise in judgment, I fear, against fome christians. We have that vaft globe of light, the writings of the apoftles, before us, and yet how many fall fhort of the virtue recorded on the urn I have defcribed! Emilia, a heathen, adjufts her whole life according to piety and juftice, and by the dim light of reafon, manifefts fuch difpofitions, and practises fuch dutys, as fhew her filled with the fruits of righteousness, to the glory of her creator.— On the contrary, Emilia, a chriftian, my acquaintance, the daughtter of Z. Z. hears a fermon every Sunday morning, receives the facrament regularly, and is a zealot for the creed of St. Athanafius, but as to the good benevolent spirit of the gospel, fhe has very little of it; and in floth and idlenefs, in levity, diffipation, and cenforiousness, fhe paffes life away, without one true principle of love either to God or man. She preferves an outward decency of manners, and believes whatever the church hath ordered her to swallow:

But

But as to a holy and heavenly temper, the pious turn of foul which the fcripture requires, and that newness of the fpirit, which alone can make the difciples of Chrift more excellent than their neighbours; the is fo far from thinking fuch a divine life the terms of acceptance; and from laboring to introduce the new and boly qualitys of reveled religion into her mind, in oppofition to the ways and fashions of a vain world; that she can even pass the Sunday evenings away at cards, and in vifiting, and wafte at play and entry the hours of the facred day; that day, which ought to be intirely employed in felf-examination and prayer, in meditation and the ftudy of the books (a), in forming refolutions against the world and its pleasures, against living in the inchanted circle of enjoyments, and in determining, for the week to come, to double our diligence, in laboring for the graces and virtues of the chriftian life.

This is aftonishing. Can it fignify any thing to be feparated from others by a new name, how great and excellent foever that name might be, if we fall fhort of the virtue of a heathen? What can the two ordinances

profit us, if we do not aim at the fair principle of honor, and ever strive to act what is fairest and most laudable.--If the aFive

(a) The fcriptures fo called for their excellency above all others.