The Parian Chronicle

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RHnesius spe cs favourabia a Cyriacus. Instript Aniiii. praef. p. ii. This collectini, binis the onomi Mille transcriptiones seceo- cute incipiast, agnifico Viro, domino Ilaymundo Fuggero.&c. Petrus Apianus athematicus, ranetluilomaeus Arnantius Poeta. D. E. D. Ingolaei in anno MDXXXIV. Drani, qui excerpta e Tyriaci schetlis mi exemteriint, fuere Petrus Apianu ac ruiniurnaeus Avianinis rines Itin prie .lon antiquitatibus orbis totius, a Pereo Apimois Bartholomaeo Amantio forais datis, fictae multae sunt a diversis auctoribus inscriptiones Aug. Diad. i. p. 62. enagiana, torn. V. p.

26a.-- e of erarit in this collection is e focilii, pi optrecy ofi Alexetiodri Gerataini Itinerarium in regiones sub aequinoxiasi

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ina allisi inscriptions an antiquities, hicli in resto ste ori could produce. ut it is obsere e matno traveller, haesides himself, ver a. inest curiosities anil, a M. de la Moste te Vayer minas, Uit is stegrevest imperetinencerio rat imaginar pillars, and beartes imon to the conquest an dominion es e R Inans, in places, Haere apparenti no Roman verithis λω, an in dilaedi opposition to stetris in historiam .' Gersdinus appears o have been Mareat atravellar, and Mareat a ron ancer, as Leo Africanus:

par nobile fratriunt In I 636 Curtius Ingliiramius publime a volume of Tusca Antiquities ' , containing a multitiae of Latiniustriptions relative to the originis Volaterra Sena, Rome, c. intch, he says, he ound under-ground wScornelium, neu Volaterra. The inscriptions, he telisus, vere Inittenarone Prosperiis Fesulanus, vino livedui the time o Ciceroa, and deposited by hini in that place, arith an episti to the finder, in hic he prophetica describes the seid Inghiminii a lam man strictinjunmons othini notri communicare the originals to any one and denounces me nio horribi calamities

o such asci uid presume o steat, o ouch theni, to lepreciate the credit of the finder, or ob in of thegloi' lo Whichium vas emitted sor in discover of these inestimal le trealares i.

De la otheae Hyre, des meiens Historiens Grecs I atlas.' his voricis entillia, Et istarum Antiquitatum Fragmenta, quibus urbis Romae, alitu anique gentium primordia, mores, ε res gestae indieantur, a Curtio Inghiramio reperta Stamielli prope Vul- terram. Francolarii, anno salutis DCXXXVII. Ethrusco veris cI cI cI cI ccccxcv. Folio A forineredition mas printellat Florenee in I 636.r eL Chr. εα Alius, si fori invenerit, M s meas tangere non mi ista alioquin

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It is eas to se me auctor' vimus in inrowin out se denunciations Though iste vfere Wrfecti abstes arvi ridicuIous, the were plaint intende Pio chechine imperiinent curiosit' me animadversio , arul theridicule of his opposem. The whola performance ,-eve bear me most ob- visus mark of haud and imposition . The aras res mot in the least correspo M in the mode of Writini

in the time o Cicero the Limitan is mean and bar bamus; ine custoins, inich ad occasiona mentioned, vere unicino vn in ancient Romeri and me stomes, inicii are tota of the patriarchmoah are lone sum cient to expost the gros es of the cheat.

ine pretended disci ery . in have ascribe this perforanetinc tolostellus ;

alioquin silperiini infernoninuiue deorum iam experius peribit infelix. . . Si pns has scripturas quovis modo sita arripuerit, famae et cor iis acturam faciet . . . Si quis nomen suum inam iussa truris, vel tuum deprimere fuerit ausus, rerum suariam, vitae, honoris, maximum damnum passus omnibus ludibrio erit. Verum ais haeredes tui nec tu, inVentin scripturiis aliis dare audeatis, nam malum instat, sed ininscriptas poteris dare a volueris, c. p.

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But e nio ente mZin and eminent mitationerin the artis malcing fictilious inscriptions, vas Anni of Viter oin Iliave Hready mentione l. Antonius Augustinus gives iis me solio vin account of me process, whicli Annius observe Lin his sergeries. mihi L atinus Latinius site biensis, vir doctus, bonaeque fidei, de Joanne Annio, ite biensi monacti, narrare ducund solabat Lapidi instulpendas curasse literas, quem vineae insedi jusserat, non proclii a vite bio. cuique fodienda esset vinea, ad lapidem usque ut fodiendo pervenirent jussit narrans in libris se reperisse, templum ibi octis terraritin antiquissimum latere Terra amn effossa, primus, qui l idem invenit, vinitor accurrit paulatim detegi sarcophagum imperiit. Hic stupens, lapidis antiq intern mitteras a se confidis, admiratur ac describens, ad ustis senatores laetiis confugit, & civitatis honora fore persuadet, in amplissimo public spectari loco. Vite bii enim uisis originem contineri, viae bis mille annis Romana esset licte Romulo condita longe antiquior, utpote es Iside Osiride conditae. Fabulas hic sitas, quibus abundabat, venditavit, ad simque ut ille jusserat. Fertur man

scripta inscriptio ficta, typis etiam evisν hoc initio,

nlinica friaris stat ci . Annius go an inscription engrave on a stone, vehicli te buried in a vine tuis neu Vitecto. Ivlien

Latinus Latinius vas bor at iter , abolit inera era Isr3. Ide publi&ed notes o Tertullian, and a vork, entilled, Bibliothein sacra et profana, sive observationes, correctiones, conjeicturae, visiae lectiones.l Au si Dial. i. P. Oo.

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on the nature an importance of the discovery, and persuade theni stetit his venerable monument of antiquit' vouldae an evertast in honotaret in cit' fati Would remove ita a conspicuous place Where it might be publici exhibited. Η observed that it relate tost originis vitecto and that Rome founde etoooyears since by Romulus, vias far inserior in mini ofantiquit to Viterbo, hic vas bullt 3 Isis and Osiris. Utin these romantic stories, mici he readilyinvented he amused the public an his orders vere instanti Ubeyod. An inscription ratas circulate in manuscript an ine 'ard p interii laeginians vitii these vorsis, Go UM Isis, Ilam Isis ' project of the senae hin Was in n/ged, vitii sonae success by one Heranicus C adus, o Herinio Gajado, a Poriugues poet, aliout uae ear 5os . When his colimrymen hia uitae a conquest o severa places in Ahica, and theaas In sies, he composed ome .atin verses, in the style of a Sibylline prophecy, foretelling

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The Duilia inscription has been recte one a nost

tionem, in columnis ni moreis incisam, quae per ambages significa bat, Indos sub imperium, sitionein Lusitanoriam esse Venturos, eosque lapides data opera DETRUNCAΥos, ut aliqua inessent ANTIQUITATIS vestigia obrii praecepit. . . . Ubi ver defossa naar Nora ali liud vitium fecisse, ex humore terieno, vilicavit, ad cenam siem, simulata delectationis causa, invitat inicos in villam suam, quae proximi erat loco, ubi obnituna latebat vaticinium. Cum agitur accubuissent omnes, ecce villicus nunciatmerinico, mercenarias ejus operas, dum in fundo fossionibus incuniberent, incidisse in lapides, in quibus inscriptae essent literae, indices nia ni cujusdam stesauri, eodem loco defossi sic enim mistic opinabantur. Nec

mora, omnes simul, alacritate ingenti, relictis epulis, acinamini,

defossas intuentur columnas, onfestinuiue extrahi utants in qui εbus incisa hujusm in errant carinina Sibyllina: Sibyllae vaticinium, occidiis Merenam Volventur saxa literis, Mordine rectis,

Ciann videas occidens orientis opes.

Ganges Indus Tam erit, mirabile visu,

Merces commutabit suas uterque sibi. Soli aeterno ac lunae decretun . Tum vero nanes, pro se quisque legere, admirari, versus illos fati licos venerari, manu tangere, exosculari . . . . Ita Sibyllina fabula vires acquirit eundo, ac tandem per totum terrariam orbem diis

vulma, fides ei ubique et auctoritas adjungitur, hodi inue typis excusa circlinafertur in fronte codicis, ii titulus est, Inscriptiones antiquae ' Varreri Censuri in quemlani Auctorem, qui sub falsa Inscriptione Berosi Chaldaei circuirafertur, p. a. edit. 1598. Fabric Bibl. Lat. l. v. c. 3. Vol si p. 6or Curious

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seem to question iis authenticit , o havin occasumto mention iis e in misin os the Parim Chronicie, iis initiates his sulpicion in these itor th simia

mirum genium est l.

M possibis, on bis guard against filis and ficti irious iii

scriptions lis osten found stat he hsul inadvertientini seriei plurimas aperi spurias,' many that are eri

C. Duilius commvade Lilae Roman Met in the sir Caieth nian war, and gaine a complete victoV. To perperitate in me-ino of this triumpla, a pinar of white metiri te vas erected totis honour a Rome This illam is alle Columna rostraua, Domui rostra, or beak of hips, mist,hicli it was Moenia on sinhasis of the column vas an inscription recordina in explous ἡDuilius, and the value of the booty, whicli vas inicen in the M thaginian alips. The mniins Dinis utar vere accidentali clugup, in the year xs6o, in the place Whicli vas forinerly the Fomni Romanum anci, by the orderi Cardines Alexander Famese, . removexto the capites. te inscription, viae is in old Latin is stipposta odiave bemvrririen 6 years laeso me Christia aera, an is rechonin theniost ancient Lais monumentio. ining. Iustus ipsius adinvoum to supply the deficiencies in the instription Pet. Ciaeconius id the sanie, an expletitae inosense in adearmed commentaW,entis ,,et Ciacconii in Columnae Rostriit C. Duilli inscriptionem, a se conjectura suppletam Conimentariu . Lug. Bat. 397. . GraeV. Thesaur. om. v. P. 18o . Uniat. Hist via. xvii. p. 26. M. u. p. 171 edit. 17M.' Sela manu Arund in edit Ans . p. 3. De Ursino dixeram, caute merum imae solere, quas ab ipso Pim sectas scirem, inscriptiones ; paratus sum, si quis postulet, SIC., TITIAS eum PLURIMA exmisisse probare. Rcines ad Ruperium Epist. so. p. 456. Epist. 43. p. 18. Epist. 31. P. 487.

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are many counterseit in Gniter' collemon'. As a serine conficination o whates have here observe L stat subjoin e reniark of a learned writer, vino in his instance, ita advince non of his usui

Falsinini inscriptionum architectos proxinhiam nos tro saeculum INNUΜERos tulit; egregim artifices, qui, quas ipsi magna, ut sibi quidem Videbantur, arte emincinnassent, has aut 1 marmoribus, aut in tabulis aeneis,plunabessve, aut lateritiis fistulis, aut in antiquis denique numismatis, lectas a se fuisse mentirentur. Sed et aliquot ante aetatibus fraus eadem in usu fuit Plena sunt pergamena manu exargia fictis in otio inscriptionibus, epitaphiis, elogiisa quae cum inde eruuntur a viris etiam alioqui magnis ac probis, sed minus justo suspiciosis, in eoru leni sustragio pondus illa accipiunt ac deinde mirifice inquinant perturbandilue prophanani histori

utinam vero non etiam ecclesiasticana.

Superiore porro saeculo, insigniores harum inscriptionum rubricatores fuere Iovianus Pontanus, Pomponius Liaetus, Joannes Camers, Cyriacus conitanus, aliiquet. Hos enim in primis nominatim designat Antonius Augustinus, Dialogo xi. p. 61. Cyriaci vero officina plurimas in Annales Hispaniae transfudit Ambrosius Morales t et exinde Gruterus in Thesaurum suum esto autem inscriptionibus nullum hodie in

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Hispania legi, testis est idem Antonius Augustinus, ni summae erit sitionis, limatique judicii, qui de Ioanne

Annio, Italisque adsis praeterea conqueritiir, quod suae, nempe Hispaniae, genti epigraminata et marinori μυχμserin me vise usis, nec ab Hisparsis reperta atque ea

demum ille cum Amadisi Gallici et Hanes Furiosi

nugis commentisilue confert. Inscriptionum huiusni immensam supellectilem, radraginta amplius digestian voluminibus, olim collegit Pyrrhus Ligorius quae R inae extare dicitur in bibliotheca Barberinna et Fav -- sana. Qua in vasta mole atque congerie Spanhemius, vir emiclitus, confitetur p. I I. Iiliam esse aut dubiae fidei, aut confessae novitatis.' Nec ruiuim ille crevisse segetem putat, nisi ex plurimoriimis aude, qui Ligorio viro bono fucum fecerint. Farraginem eam esse surusit, quae possit incautis imponere, avidis ad quanactimque ciboriun novitatem, viris etiam alioquin eruditis, sed, ut dixi, minime suspiciosis. Neque enim HEBETES ac sπULTI sunt, ii dant operam, ut hac arte fallant. Sic Muretus olim Scaligero ipsi imposuit, quem induxit, ut

crederet, Aren et Trabeae , Veterum, ut aiunt, Oetariam Carmina laaedam esse; aae idem Muretiis, a se

conium sub eorum nominibus Scesigero submiserat. veteribus etiarn. schedis Iosephi caligeri describitur il Grutero posita, ut quidem ait, icomediae inscriptio: quis hanc, amabo, ad Scaligerum Nicomedia attulit pM Atqui non Gruterum modo, sed et eos, qui volumini ejus amplificando suam veluti sy olam contulerunt, fefelleriint ii, qui vel ex marmoribus ea se descripsisse elogia testati sunt vel eruta ex membranis fallacibus insculpere lapidibus, superiore praesertim saeculo, ad M- quam patriae suae laudem, incaute sategerunt vel QUI

See an aemunt of this imposum in Fabrie. Bibl. Lat. l. v.

c. a. p. 198 essit. 3738.

DENIQUE

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TENT. Neque ex sexavn kr ir rimoribus, quae Constantiiuiarii hujus saeculi esse aestimetuatur, es una quidem incrura est, si instriptionem Arcus Constanti-