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XXXIX. An Account of some antient Roman Inscriptions, lately discovered in the Provinces of Istria and Dalmatia; with Remarks. In a Letter to the Reverend Doctor Milles, Dean of Exeter, and President of the Society of Antiquaries, from John Strange, Esq.

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Since you was pleased to inform me, that the views of the Society of Antiquaries are not confined merely to English Antiquities, but wish to extend themselves also to the more entertaining, as well as edifying, subjects of Roman Antiquities in general; I avail myself of the present opportunity to communicate to you some acquisitions of that kind, which I made, not long since, from the provinces of Istria and Dalmatia. They were communicated to me by the Abbé Fortis, of Padua, an ingenious and celebrated Italian Naturalist, whom I recommended, some time ago, to make the tour of those provinces with a learned friend of mine, and who, in return, very obligingly favoured me with an account of his itinerary, in a series of entertaining and instructive letters, which are now before me. His favourite pursuit was Natural History; but he did not intirely neglect Antiquities. I shall therefore briefly extract from his letters such observations of that kind as appear to me mostly to merit attention. These respect principally some antient Roman inscriptions, which occasionally fell in his way, and which I do not find in other writers, at least among the more classical collectors, as Gruter, Fabretti, Muratori, &c. To these I shall add such pertinent remarks as occur to me upon the subjects of these inscriptions.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1775

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page 339 note [a] Notit. Imper. Occident. cap. xxxix.

page 339 note [b] Notit. Dignitat. Imper. Rom. sect. 42. p. 85.

page 339 note [c] De Purpura et Bysso. Ienae, 1706, 4to.

page 342 note [d] Nat. Hist. Lib. III. cap. xvi.

page 342 note [e] De aeslu portus littorisque Ariminensis.

page 349 note [f] La Verità del Diluvie.