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ntts OJfiano Hieroclete, V, P. PrteJ. Proimcta D. N. M. O.

The Name of Maximianus Herculeus , who was Partner in the Empirewith Diocleßan, which stiould havefollow’d in the Infcription, feems to havebeen on Purpose seratcht out, and Defaced, for what reason I cannot guefs.The rest is lost by theBreaking of theSttw.

In the West fide of the Great Piax,z.a arc several Openings for Gates,leading into the Court of the Palace : Two whereof, one would easily bc-lieve when they werc in their Perfection, were the most Magmficent andGlorious in the World, both for the Elegancy of the IVurk in General} andParticularly for thole Stately Porpbyry Ptllars with w hich they were Adorn’d,Each Gute had 4, not standing in a Line with the others of the WaU, butplaced by Couples in the Front of the Gute, facing the Palace ; two on on«Hand, and two on the other : Of theseRemain but Two Entire, and butOne Standing in its Place. They are about 30 Foot in Length, and 9in Circumference: Of a Substance Ib exceeding Hard, that it was withgreat Difficulty we broke off a few Shivers to bring home with us for aRattern of the Sterne ; the Art of Making which, I think, is quite Lost.We saw several other broken pieces of Perphyry , but neither of so accu-rate a Mixture and Composition, nor so Large as the Former.

The Palace it seif is so Entirely Ruined, that no Judgment can be madewhat it was in its Ancient Splendour, either for the Figure or Work-manfhip thereof. There is only here and there a Broken Piece of a Wall re-maining, beat into Pieces by Violence, and consom’d by Time to that De-gree, that without the help of a Tradition we could hardly be well assur'd,that a Royal Palace did once fäll that Space. We may guefs however,that it Yronted the Famous Piaz.z,a before Mention’d, and was scrroundedwith Rows of Ptllars of Different Orders: many of which are still Stand«ing, fume Plainand some Wrought and Channell'd, as thosc immediatelyEncompaiiing the Ttmple. And upon those little Pedeftah t which stood caitof the Middle of some of them, I obscrv’d several Infcriptions, but could not-convemently take more than one, which together with the Piüar that sop-ported it was fallen to theGround. ’Twas this,

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If the rest were of a like Nature with this, we have lost no great matterby not taking them, this being only a Memorial , which a Kind Husbandcaus’d to be set up in Honour of bis Wtfe, The Month Dyßrus , answersto our March, and the Tear 490, from the Death of Alexander the Great ,the Tear of our Lord 166.

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