Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . A corona radiata of eight rays, with the refemblance of atyger on one fide. MM^>. The aquila and the mantis, both military enfigns. The eagleis infcrihed, Legion. XXIIII. Some te/fercs of copper : hereare the figures of two of themj 3 # On that marked with the afterifk, there is this infcription,IVBEO ET IS EI SI FECERIT GAVDEBIT SEMPER. Thefe, FLORENCE. Thefe, according to fome, are of the kind which were calledfortes prcenejlince, ufed in divination ; a fort of lots, whichwere put in
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . A corona radiata of eight rays, with the refemblance of atyger on one fide. MM^>. The aquila and the mantis, both military enfigns. The eagleis infcrihed, Legion. XXIIII. Some te/fercs of copper : hereare the figures of two of themj 3 # On that marked with the afterifk, there is this infcription,IVBEO ET IS EI SI FECERIT GAVDEBIT SEMPER. Thefe, FLORENCE. Thefe, according to fome, are of the kind which were calledfortes prcenejlince, ufed in divination ; a fort of lots, whichwere put into a box, each having its particular mark, and weredrawn out by a boy : but to me they feem rather to be thetefera militares; which were a fort of tallies made fometimesor copper, as thefe are, fometimes of filver, and fometimesivory, having a particular infcription, either of a fingle word,or of a fentence; which, at the fetting their night-guards, wasgiven from one Centurion to another, quite thro the army, tillit came again to the Tribune who at firft delivered it. The likewere alfo made ufe of at the beginning of engagements; atwhich time the word or fcntence was communicated byth
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