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ted to the Subjects, viz. A Print representingAugustus, attended with M. Agrippa , Mæ-cenas, and, as some not without Reason think,Horace, giving a Crown, probably to Phraates,

- -jus imperiumque Phraates

Cæsaris accepit genibus minor .

Hor. Ep. L. i. Ep. 12 .

done after an ancient Painting in your curiousand eteg&nt Collections to which, in one high-ly valvabse Branch of Antiquity, there is nonein the World equal : For no where even inItaly , are there now so many well-preserv’dPieces of ancient Painting : Those, which whilethey adorned the Palace of th zMaJstmi at Rome,were justly esteemed amongst the most curiousRemains Time or Barbarity had left undestroy’d,are now, all of them, where every Briton wholoves the Arts, will rejoice to know they areplaced; being carefully preserved in a Library,to which that Character is universally acknow-ledged to be due, which Cicero gives of one ofthe best Collections in the World at his Time,as what render’d it truly an Honour to its

Master,