It is just that France enjoys lending peace through the care of our August & Triomphant monarch, that the Republic of letters which flourishes under this protection finds its place in this bliss, & that museums which are no longer afraid of the noise of the Canons return to their first studies, & fassen tpart to their projects of the discoveries which they have made in the extent of their Ju-ridiction. Indeed this century seems cstrc a century of new inventions. Theologians have found manuscripts of the Fathers which have not yet appeared, historians have published new stories of all the Provinces -, the jurifcon-sultes have compiled Codes, & new laws, which the good ones & study have dictated to them -, the doctors have found the circulation of the (tong, the veins La&E, the Quinquina & thousand other things which were unknown to their fathers; physicists have found the dryness to breathe the air we will breathe, to measure the heat, to Melt metals by The Sun's rays, to dwell under the water for a long time, & to walk deius. 11 eit. not until the flight of the oyseals that we did not want to imitate y & en-end antique dealers have not given less trouble to make discoveries in the vast & curious country of antiquity. Ancient Medals of all the kingdoms & all Empires -, we deehifred a thousand curiositez of ancient Ro- hands, which adorn our fathers only silent letters impeached from eiprit & mistere. It is in this design that I wished to contribute something to the advancement of fine literature, and I resolved to justify to the Public my discoveries in Antiquity , by donating some of those that I made there. I do not know if I was mistaken in this undertaking, but it seemed to me that it did not seem less pleasant to the people of letters, that it could be useful to my architects, sculptors, & painters, who learn every day from these great originals of antiquity, the ways to perfect their Art. this connotation is so necessary mainly for that of Religion, history & geography of the ancients, that she has always shared the watches of the Savans & the courses of The Curious. Parmy the great men who studied it, Fulvius Ursinus, Gruter, Boisiard, & Goltzius, are those to whom one has the most obligation by the quantity of marbles, Statues, busts, Bas-reliefs, Inscriptions & medals that they have brought to light. But since it is impossible to unearth all at once all that the pasiez centuries have hidden under the ruins of cities and in the basin of the Earth, our Mo-Derns , Seguin, Spanheim, Patin & Vail-lant, did not disdain to communicate to the world before their lights. And what if mine were of the most faithful wheat, I was satisfied to have acquired some that could illuminate these almost unknown lands , my travels in Europe & Asia having given me advantages that I wouldn't have found it in the office. It will be judged by this volume which I now give & which may be sivy of someone else, if the curious ones consider it worthy of their approval, nothing has been spared for the beauty, either of the plates, or of the impression, & one has reason to believe that the sharpness which one has tried to have in all the explanations will not tire the readers by the walks which one makes them in this old world. That if the people of the mestier are not satisfied with it, they will receive their ad vis with all possible deference, and even if they have made some considerable discovery in their country , they will oblige the Public to communicate them to us, but we do not want anything if it is possible that good & informative & that has not been noticed by others. For we have studied to give only those things which have not been published, either for the Infcriptions, or for the Statues, or for the medals ; what could have been wrong, since it is not possible to see all the new books, which appear in the light : besides doing great sorupule to consume too much time to what must happen only to me delas-ser of my watches & my most essential studies, the profession of Medicine that I E-xerce obliging me indipensably to discharge with all the accuracy & application that it requires, a few words that I can give every day to my curiosity may not be enough to make me search in the authors for everything that could happily complete what I am undertaking. But if God allows it time will be able to (uppleer, & I never E-pargneray my (anins & my works, when I believe them useful to the public. EXPLANATION Antiquities engraved on the frontispiece, where in these researches no desTein is given which does not (Goose taken from the antique, one has made a serupuie to put one in the frontispiece,which does not {bit aul•i taken on originals, what that others do not make difficulty to give whims rather than truths in these kinds of boards which serve only as ornament. This can happen when the subject of the book does not provide material proper to these ornaments : but it must have bad opi-nion of antiquity, to look elsewhere than at home, to entertain the eyes &C the mind. This board therefore presents a cluster of several beautiful pieces of antiquity that curious travelers consider & £ examine. i. the first is a beautiful work of Architecture very high that sees to S. Remy in Proven-ce. It is made in the manner of a square tower at the bottom,&; the desiis in round Lantern, in which se see two standing Statues veftues a La Romai-ne. At the bottom is a marble in low relief representing some battle, but it is spoiled that one can hardly tell the figures. In the desTus are some lines of an Inscription almost all Erased, which teaches us to read it, ceiuy for whom has been dreamt this beautiful monument. There is an appearance that it is for some illustrious Roman who had won in these quarters a battle \ for we see in the frile under the lan-tern of the Newts OC hippopotamus, who (usually used by the ancients to celebrate the victories: OC in addition the low relief smble repreienter, as we have said, a battle. To quoy we must add that there are near there the relics of a beautiful Arc de triomphe. The columns of this beautiful architectural work are of Corinthian order, 8c all proportions are well obser- Vees. 2. The figure that is there beside on a foot of estal was found in the mesme place. It's a woman dressed up to the heels whose sheet is perfectly beautiful, & whose action I would not know to say. What is behind is a beautiful OC gran-de urn of white marble adorned with ivy leaves OC of vines, with grapes Oc" an oiieau in the middle that becquette them. She sees herself with ba (Ž an-tique chez Monlleur de Boyer Concilier at par-ment in Aix en Provence. On one of the faces of the bas is sEpitaphe of a woman aged ten-bu'it w, named Corneiia ValerilU, who put him CSTE. by Casonius Hermes fin mary: in these terms Explanation of Antiquities, D. M. GORNELIAE VA LERILLAE ANN. XVIII CAESONI VS HERMES CONIVGI DVLG ISS. Ivy and vines can be the emblem of the conjugal union-O C the oyser who spoils them on the vine, the one of the premature death of this young woman, taken from Son mary before she had borne the first fruits of their love. 4. The Temple that follows is that of Vesta Deesie of the earth, whose entrance is forbidden to men. Us the round Baty avoicnt, because the Earth is round. It is there that the Palla-dium is preserved, that is, the idol of Pallas which they diibied fell from Heaven, & which was brought from Troye by Aeneas. And it is in this temple that the Vestals continuously preserve the sacred fire, the symbol of the eternity of the Empire. 5. At the bottom in the greatest distance appears an ancient monument in the manner of Py-ramide which still remains in Vienna in Dauphi-born. Voicy what the Savant historian M Chorier said in his research of the Antiquitez of Vienna. The pyramid which appears in the middle Beyond The Plain is composed of stone quarters of a grostur worthy of astonishment, & pushed very high to square point, that sbžtain four pillars, between which are so many doors & C entrances. The Neighboring Provinces have few monuments that do not yield luy. I have no doubt that she was not accom-pounded with many ornaments that she no longer has, &C of which the injustice of some brutal men stripped her. It is certain that if it could have been easily demolished, the barbaric Nations that so often flooded the Gauls would have been overthrown, but having not been able to (years danger, they at least outraged her as much as their rage had freedom.If sˆ cime is nevertheless missing some stones, so that it no longer ends in a sharp point, as it does, it is an outrage that she has only received for about fifty years. A Mila-nois who lived in Vienna at that time, having bought the land where this pyramid is, rut carried by SBN avarice &C by its brutality, with the advice of destroying it. He began this sacrilege, but the Holy Peter of Boiisac opposed luy sbn authority, & being then the head of Justice in Vienna, he trusts for his glory, OC for that of his homeland this a&E of Justice, which has confected to us such a noble work. It is a public opinion, which is poorly supported, that it is the Mausoice of Vcnerius, that one pretends to have been the Authorcur " the founder of this city. It was imagined that, as the urns containing the ashes of Antoninus, & of Mark Aurele, were placed at the top of the obelisks dreslez in Rome in their memory j those of Venerius were austi by the first Viennese, at the tip of this pyramid in an urn of gold. This imagina-tion was followed 4 by another by which it was confirmed. It was added, as Jean Du Bois remarked, that the poet actually men-tion Ausone in the Gryphe we have of luy, so that we read parmy these poetic works. But who will have read it, will judge from the boldness{• to - spposr, that had those in whose minds this thought first fell. This work seems too Roman to ertre attributed to Africans, of there is less reason to believe them the authors, that it is certain that Africa has nothing lemblable. Apart from the fact that the accounts of Venerius are fabulous, that Vienna is the work of the Allobroges, 8C not of a few if you move away. Nevertheless, I confess that this pyramid was made only to honor the memory of some illustrious death : &C quoy that we do not have strong enough evidence to teach us with certainty to the glory of whom it was erected , we have asfez de conje-ctures to imagine that it was in the honor of Augufte. The long prosperites of sbn Reigns, having gained the esteem and love of all peoples, divine honors were bestowed upon him after his death, in the principal cities of his Roman Empire. They all tried to imitate what Rome had done on that occasion. There were not only Temples taken from priests as an immortal God, but also Tom-beaux as an illustrious Man and erected from them Cenotaphic beards, though altars. This is how the Greeks, after them the Latins named these tombs vuides, which are built only to perpetuate the memory of the people, of excellent merit, or of a high condition. Those who neglected to acquit themselves of this duty were mistreated> as coulpables of a crime. Tiberius did not go unpunished. Is it not true, however, that Vien-ne, who was then so noble and powerful, was most ardent in testifying to Tiberius the respe&s she had for him, by those whom she had proposed to return to the memory of this Prince her father , Oh his benefactor ? We have already seen how she will consect priests and altars, and it is good to believe what she joined to these honors, what she owed to this Prince, who was among the Gods, The One of the burial she owed to this God, who was among the dead. This Pyra-mide was probably the Cenotaph of it, at least sastru£turene suffered so much that it is believed that el-le was the Tomb of a private person, ¤C none of the emperors so presnte of whom can be judged that it is more apparently than Augustus. Explanation of AntiqmteZj 6. Returning from the back of the alley we see the Amphiteatre or Colosseum of Titus, of which more authors have spoken, as it still subsists in Ro-me, as it is represented in the medals, & especially in a beautiful Medallion of a-lexandre Severe that I saw in Rome at my-signor Ginetti, with these letters Mvnificentia A v g vsti. This Prince had repaired it auiTi although the theater & The Circus, as-Says Lampridius. Lenonum, msretricam & > exoletorum cve5iiga, L infacmm ararium inferri ryetuit, fed futnptibus publias, ad in-Jaurationem Circi, Theatri, Amfhitheatri ^ ararij de- I'm alive. 7. All joining is a small Temple whose cover is in dome with tortoiseshell, which is that of Juno nicknamed Martial, on the back of a Volusien mesh-daille. 8. Below is the facade & c half of the Temple of Minerva in Athens of which I gave the whole deiiein in my trip from Greece. 9. Next to s sees a statue of a young man dressed up to the heels of a Romai-ne-style dress, whose original marble that was brought from Smyrna, is in Marseilles at Monsieur Fou-quier. 10. The obelisk that has been found in Arles for a few years, is one of the antiques that first strikes the view. It is a kind of Pyra-mide all in one piece, of Egy-paste granite marble like those of Rome. Mr. terrein Academician of Arles explained it sensibly, &; said almost everything we can say about the Obe-lisques, in the book he also gave us. although of the beautiful Venus of Arles, that one pre- born once for a Diane. ii. ii. 13. Behind is a beautiful pilaster decorated with fueillages, which can be seen at the Triumphal Arch of S. Remy. All against is a Roman Eagle, which one portoit before the legions, & C opposite close the first monument we described is a military burial, with a hand extended to the desslis, from which comes the word Manipulas, which iseither pretty much what we used to call a company. 14. Finally we notice on the floor a beautiful cha- piteau of the ruins of the city of IalTus, now called AskemkallesŽ, in Asia Minor. By this we can see that our France mesme we can provide beautiful pieces austi although the Greece & Italy, & C sometimes neglected what we have at soy, to run after Foreign curio - (itez who are not better. BURP PRIVILEGE. IS by the GRACE of God , King of France and Navarre : to our friends in our courts of Parliaments, but to the ordinary remains of our hotel, liaillifs, Seneschals, Prevosts , judges their Lieutenans& all other our justices & of-ficiers that it will belong : greeting. Our friend Thomas Amaulry Merchant Bookseller, of our City of Lyons, We made up that it arccoi'vrŽun Book titled Research the curious of Antiquity, contained in plujteurs Dissertations on Medals, Bas-reliess, Statues, Mb-saiqites & ancient Inscriptions, enriched with a large number of Figures in intaglio , composed by Monsieur Spon , Doctor of Medicine Ag-gre Stetbariay among the modern Greeks, as if one dis™it portraits up to the chest. The former Payans, who do not usually do their greatest deeds except by a modicum of vanity, or in order to acquire reputations, are well aware of the memory of what they have done most illustrious. That was why they used medals, Inscriptions, Bas-reliefs, Edifices , and Statues, which braved time by the SB-lidity of their material. By this measure raisbn, they decided to engrave the history of their desires on their shields. Homer mentions several of them which are adorned with excellent engravings, among others that of Achilles, that of Aiax. From there came the custom of making them of metal, that they hang in the Temples for monument of their victories, & C of other actions of brilliance, or at least to leave their portraits to their of£ cendans. Tite Live says, that in the defeat of Cartha- /.ij. ginois sbus the conduct of Lucius Martius, he was silent a very large booty, by which we Hole-va a shield of silver peeling 138. books, on which was represntŽ the famous Asdrubal of Barcha one of the Leaders of this war, &C, that this Shield that we nommoit Clypeus Manias that have beene put in a Capitoline Temple, for lay-sr the memory of this defeat to the postei•tŽ, he remained there until a fire happened at the Capitol. Le mesme Autheur reports that in the triumph that Titus Quintius obtained for his victory over Philippe Roy De Mac edoine father of Demetrius, ten Shields of silver were carried, OC another entirely of gold, that one avok found parmy ks spoils enemies. It is well known that these shields are not clean for war, because of their gravity and their price. A few years later, under the Conslat of Marcus tuccius O£ of Publius Junius Brutus, were dedicated 8C put to the Capitol twelve Golden Shields. Suetone in the demitian life, remember that the Senate to mark how odious is the memory of this tyrant, commanded that these shields O£ These Images were tear off Temples. Antonin Pius dedicated a very magnetic shield to his predecessor Hadrian. Ruffin to book xi. from Ecclesiastical History, talk about the Houses of the Paysens, where your voyoit in the vestibules, in the walls to C in the fenestres, desBustes of the god Serapis, whom he calls- the thoracic Serapis. Paulus Silentiarius in the manu-written description of Hagia Sophia, quoted by Saumais, says that there were in this church several metal discs, in the midst of which there were por-features , 8C among others that of our Lord. But they do not only represent Portraits or busts of persbn-nes Illustrated on these shields, they also engrave entire stories. Found in unserits & C in the print books, several Greek epigrams, which were drawn from these shields. There were many in Cyzique in the Temple of a-pollonides mother of Attalus &C of Eumenes j on k(-which are embossed stories. On one of these shields are depict Pelias & Neleus Neptune's sons, who delivered their mother from her chains, as we learn from Plutarch. The following medals have been engraved, so that we can better see how these consˆcrez Shields were made, O£ that we can conno”tre3 that this antique piece that we ex-pliquent is one of the medals . I. the first is the reverse side of a Medal of the Emperor Augustus, to which the Senate and the Roman people had consecrated a shield, in memory of what Phraates Roy of the Parthians had sent back the military lines taken in the defeat of Cranus &C of Mark Antony, appreciating that Augustus did not make them return by force. What gave so much joy to this Em- pereur, if he had defeated the Parthians in battle-the row, O C mesme he had built in the Capitol a Temple he dedicated to Mars the Avenger, where these military Enseigns represent in this medal were consacrez, OC probably with The Shield that is in the middle. II. In the second century there is a remarkable Bouclier dedicated to Augustus by the Senate to the Roman Prince, and this is what these letters mean, as well as to the previous S. P. Q^R. CL. V. then that these are the initial letters of these words, Senatur Populus ^ UE Komanus Clypeum Votivum, or Vodet jCitsARi Augusto. This Shield has a rim on the middle like that of my-sir Mey. We see in the third a shield dedicated to Augustus as the two precedens: but it has this more, that it is attached to a column, commp Tnn avnir ^rrnnnrnme to do, what faisbit give them as we said, the name of Stylosmakia, because pens, s”gn”e a co-lonne; Oh£ Vinahon a painting or tablet. For one victory crown this shield to score someone of this Prince's. The fourth is the reverse side of a Vespasian medal, with a consecrated shield, attached to a column Between Two laurels by Order of the Senate, which is what these letters E X S. C. Ex Senatus Confulto describe. What is beyond the column is taken by Albert Rubenius for an ungodly mark of the monetarist, which is hard to believe, then that this mark would only be found in some of the medals that have this reverse. Others believe that this is the urn where the ashes of this emperor were drilled: but do they not see that when the medal was struck, Veipasian was still alive ? Rather, it must be an urn intended for some public Games. As for the two laurels, they probably have something to do with those planted at the gate of the emperors ; on the first day of the year, or at other times, when they had won some victories. Dion, speaking of the honours that the Senate bestowed on Augustus, said that he planted laurels in his palace, to mark that he was always victorious of his enemies, & c they are seen in a medal of Augustus. By this medal OC by this word of Tertullian, we learn that they plant two, one on each side of the door : Who funt, he says, Who Imperatores inter DMs laurus obj”-‰unt ? Who would make these bold who dare to sit the Emperors between their two laurels, ie, in their palace meime ? From there comes Pliny pleasantly calls the Laurel, the gatekeeper of the Cesars, the feul ornament OC the faithful guardian of their palace: Gratijfima domibus janitrix Coefarum, qtt£ fbla ^ domos exornat & ante limina excubat. V. The Fifth represents a Medal of Augustus, where we see a shield vowed by the Roman people, with a crown of cheshe, which was given to those who had conferred citizens j what Augustus had done in the ren-against Parthians, who Luy returned what they had of Romans prisbniers at home, with the military Enseignes. VI. The {”ziŽme is a Medal of Tiberius, which is painted a Shield consˆcrŽ, surrounded by dune Laurel crown, awarded by the Senate to publish at Moderation after ss wins : because that eft - this, says Velleius Paterculus, who does not admire the moderation J”nguliere of the Emperor Tiberius, who, having earned awec juftice ewpf triumphs, I merely three. Thus the vices of this principle are disguised under the special name of virtue. It is true that he was for some time moderate aflz, like the tŽ-moigne Dion, but it was only during the life of Germanicus, for the virtue of which he had consideration, C who could have engaged the Roman people to put him on the throne, St Ti-bre had not tried to confuse him SBN esteemed by a feint moderation. In the middle of the Bou- clier, we see this virtue repeated in the form of a pleasant & young person. VIL the last is the reverse of a medal of the mesme Emperor, where is another shield that the Senate dedicated in memory of Sˆ Clemen-ce, with the Portrait of this virtue under the mesme shape of a girl, he agreed, says Suetone, thank him for his clemency, for the fact that he did not strangle the beautiful sille Agrippine, that we dedicated a prefent dtor to Jupiter Capitolin. This is the admirable clemency of Tiberius for which he was dedicated the Golden Shield which is represented in this medal. This Shield is of the kind that Trebellius Pollio in the life of Claudius the Gothi- what does t>iscus Corymbiatus call, that is, a disc on which is ornamented The her-be called by the Greeks Corymbion, by the Latins lychnis coronaria, G£ by the Francois carnations Pajserofes. So it was called Pahra Fdicata a dish adorned with Fern fueilies, Hederata one that letoit Ivy fueilles, Pampinata a dish cizelŽ de fueilles de vigne. We have just seen that the metals on all the money, go from matter to Bducers devote. Their greatness is different according to the weight that one wanted to put into it, 8c the de-thoughtfulness that one wanted to do there. If one makes appli- of these remarks on the shields con-sacrez, there is no doubt that this piece that we want to explain is not one. Weight Se the value of metal, engraving, gran- almost like an army shield, its complete resemblance to those seen in the medals is indisputable proof of this. I know that the XIV. Journal des Savans 1681. who gave it to the day after the board that we had made it, says that not everyone is of my sentiment. Do not I pretend to stir the spirits to follow my vision blindly? If Ton has more certain lights than I enay, I will be forced a lot to tell me. I will only say that if someone has taken this shield for a basin, he will change his mind when he sees it, that this piece is almost completely flat when it is drilled-goes, so that the sinking in basin way. what we noticed was made by the Goldsmiths, who are mixed with the resbuder. Since they did not know that it was a consecrated Shield, they gave it The Shape of a basin, believing that it was indeed one. If we examine this indentation carefully on the original, we will see that there is no appearance that the pie was made in this way. Also, my friend Mey recently tried to get her back in top shape. I do not think that the Roman s”mplicitŽ of the time of the Scipio, which did not allow so much luxury in the vaisMe, must empeseher to believe that this fust a basin J then that one is perhaps not also convinced that AVG that it is a memorable action of Scipio that is represented there, 8c that mesoie it is not right that one sbit before having heard mesraisbns. One will not also have the thought that this rust a shield for war, if one takes care to (to pesˆnteur who would have too tired the arm of a soldier. Moreover, Shields for war are usually oval or six-year-long, as can be seen from the figure on the Lower re-liefs on the medals : but for conscripts , I think we have only round ones, oh£ that they are rather flattened rather than convex, for the convenience of Engraving. This jewel is all the more considerable, as I can asiurer , AVG who have seen most of the Cabinets of Europe, that we see no similar piece. So I hold her as the only bC worthy of being saved in the cabi-net of a Prince. The reason vray-similar to the rarity of these shields of arms, is the price of their material: because of meime that of the old statues of gold &C of silver, we have only a few small, because the value of the metal forced the postelers to melt them-so is the case of these shields, which have had the mesme fate by the richness of their material. Although this one may not be one of the largest, there are nevertheless more than 13 00. money francs. It remains for me to explain the figures of our shield, which were not put there for a simple ornament. The most enlightened antique dealers have been in the Mey tou-chant building of Moniteur this piece , O£ remain agree that the history that we see represented, is this action of virtue that made Scipio the African at the prif of Carthage the new in Spain. It is narrated in Titus-Live, after having said how they took this city, oh the great spoil that was made there. For the rest, he said , Scipio had brought the hostages of the Spaniards they had taken prisoners," the cbnsola of their bad fortune, o£ said to them that they were to fall under the puistance of the Roman People, who prcnoit more fun to aquc-irb hearts by the benefits, as the ailiijettir by fear, ïC that aimoit better to have the foreign nations pure allied ïC for friends, that make them soufrrir a sad sorvitude. Then having taken the name of all cities, he made a list of all the pnsonniers, if infbrmant of their number, &C of the country of each, ïC sent mestagers of all dimension , so that each interested family vinst receive links, making it very to DŽputez Cities ( trouvoient presns, their Citizens, o£ recommending to the Treasurer Caius Flaminis to treat the other with all the sweetness poisible. At the same time an elderly Matron pierced the crowd of hostages, to come and throw at sos feet. She is the wife of " Mandonius brother of Indibilis Roy of Ilergetes. È Her compliment interspersed with tears & c de san- È glots, was it pleasing to Scipio to recommendÈ to these guards the care of the ladies. And as Sci- È pion luy had replied that nothing would be lacking "for their interview: she added, It is not this ,> which affects us the most, because dequoy must" we are not satisfied in our di (grace. What "worries me more is the youngness of these girls", for for moy lage puts me under cover of the insults they fear. This - "Toit Les Filles d'indibilis jeunes O£ belles, qui" estoient prs d elle avec plu (leurs autres de la 3> first quality, which respect it all com- ã me their mother. So scipion luy says these words. 5> I will only follow the custom of the people 3J Roman to the exact difiscipline that obsesses in my troops, by not violating in any way my- ã deny the responsibility we owe to sex. But yours " virtue o£ your firmness whose bad fortune ã has not triumphed, force me to take even " more care of your people. In fact it donates them- ã on guard of a man whose integrity he was known, he ordered that he should have as much respect for them as if they were the souls of his best friends. ã A moment later, one of the "prisoners" was brought to him, a girl in the spring of her " age & beauty so complete, that by all where she palibited, she attracted everyone's eyes. Scipio sellant informed of his country and his family, learned that she was betrothed to a "young Prince of Celtiberians named Alluciusy" of whom she was paid dearly loved. At the hour " mesme he brought ss Parens OC The Bridegroom destined to "this beautiful. When they arrived, Scipio "spoke to them all, OC then in particular to Al -" lucius.'Young man,' he said, ' I call you-the young man, that you may speak with more confidence. My soldiers having brought me your "betrothed, OC having learned that you love him ten -" drement, what beauty can easily me "persader, I have kindly favonser yours pat" sion: what to talk to you {years disguise, " if I was allowed to enjoy the pleasures of the game- "especially in a legitimate "love, 8C that the care of the Republic did not fu£" are not masters of my heart, I was well able to "ask you your Epuso, who deserves the incli -" nation of an honorable man. But know that she was treated at moy's, with the message that she was treated at your father-in-law's, or at your parents'. It has been kept to you with "care, so that you may be made a worthy loan" to you OC of AVG. All the recompense that "I ask you, is that you be amy" of the Republic -, & c if you have for AVG au - "so much esteem that those of your nation had 35 for my father OC for my Uncle, be persadŽ that almost all the Romans" equal us in virtue, OC that there is no people "in all the earth, that you must crain more -" dre for enemy, nor any that you must 3” more sbuhaitterfor amy. This young Prince confused by this excess of goodness, carried away by "Joy holding the hand of Scipio, begged all the" Gods to reward an action of which he could not " asfez recognized the merit. However, "the Parens of this beauty, seeing that they wanted to return it to them without ransom, offered a coniiderable sum of money which they brought, B.C. prays -" rent Scipio to accept it as a testimony -,, ge of their gratitude, with confidence that the "pleasure which he would make them by receiving it, would be" no less, than ccluy to have returned them to "Prisbnniere, without having availed themselves of the rights of" victory. Scipio pretending to let s overcome " at the haste of their prayers, did put this:, money at his feet, &t having called Allucius -, he, r luy said: This is what you will have by dedus the 3R dowry that your father-in-law gives you. Receive it from my hand as a secular dowry which I present to you. So he took away the " sbmme that he had presented & take away} > Master. Finally this young prince charmed of, "presns Se of the honors of which he was filled, re -" turned to luy TOC published with praise the meri - 3 > te of Scipio, which more sblable to a God than to a man savoit all overcome by arms, by meekness &C by the benefits. Polybius who lives in the time of this illustrious hand, who is familiar with him, recounts this action in less extensive terms. He adds this remarkable word that he says to the soldiers, who "prefer this beautiful person: if my fortune" is limited to that of a particular (ungodly, you 3, could not make me a more agrea-5 present) ble: but being as I now put a 5, Army General, you could not make me 5) one that pleased me less. This great action is compared by Alulu-Gelle to that of Alexander The Great, who did not want to see Statira wife of Darius. On for- see t "he said, waving a beautiful quession 3 which of the two wall t' the most continent s or Scipio the african , who, having taken lapuijfante "city of Carthage in Spain, in which he I found a sille of the first no-ble jfe t very-beautiful & press to marry, gave in the hands of fon F-era fans to him having witnessed any paf-fion s or Alexander who does ^not wish to grinding njoir the semme Darius prife in the battle , well quon luy eusi said that cej”oit one of the most beautiful perfonnes of the world. As for Scipio, the fame of vraye or fau£ s did not always make him so chaste, during the first broths of jeunes•, & the poet Na^vius had composed a few verses sˆ-tyriques against him. What may have obliged Valerius Antius to speak of his morals other than all the other historians,£ 8 to write against what we have said, which he did not return: not this daughter to sbn father, but that he kept her near luy as Mistress. The slander of this insulting historian in the memory of Scipio is not only refuted by the testimony of other writers : but also by our shield : because with what forehead. Scipio eust-it allowed that one exposast in a Temple sor a consecrated Shield, history of a virtuous action that he would not have done -, of the falsity of which the Romans and the Spaniards would have informed you. Moreover he was then 2.7 years old. at 2-8. years, which is a more meur age, 6C better able to resist the Earthlings of youth, of which he had formerly been accused, before the glory fust sˆ dominant passion," as it eiloit at that time.