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Master, Sic ornata , ut urbi quoque ejset orna-mento

Another Plate exhibiting ancient Actors up-on the Stage in their Masks, done from a veryexact and elegant Drawing of a very beautifulBas-relief lately discovered at Rome , which be-ing well worthy of a Place in the fame excellentCollection would likewise have been procuredfor you had it been possible.

Marcus Agrippa *, whose many other greatQualities are painted out to us in the First ofthese Dissertations by a very masterly Hand,(X’ Abbe de Vertot) was such an intelligent andzealous Patron and Encourager of the politeArts, that he published an Oration against thosepretended Admirers of them in his Time, wholocking up and imprisoning Greek Busts, Sta-tues, Bas-reliefs and Pictures in their Town-Cabinets and Country Villa’s, and cruelly de-

nying

•j- Hujus domus est vel optima MeJJanœ, notislimacerte, &nostrisho-minibus apertiffima maximeque hospitalis. Ea domus, ante adventum

istius, sic ornata suit, ut urbi quoque esset ornamento.- Mejfanam

ut quisque nostrum venerat, hæc visere solebat: omnibus hæc advisendum patebant quotidie: Domus erat non Domino magis orna-mento quam civitati. Cicero in Verrem. 4.

* M. Agrippa , vir rusticitati propior quam deliciis. Extat certsejus oratio magnifica & maximo civium digna, de tabulis omnibussignisque publicandis: quod fieri latins fuisset, quam in Villarumexiliapelli. Pliny , L. 35,