Niccolò Marcello Venuti

A Description of the First Discoveries of the Ancient City of Heraclea Niccolò Marcello Venuti

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1750 edition. Excerpt: ... Guasco Piemont.-Acad. Etrusco. sopra l'Autonomia de' Greci che si stampa nel torn. V. delle Dissert, dell' Academia di Cortona. b V. Valliant. Coloniar. t. 1. Vid. Lettere critiche d'un Academ. Etrusco. ad un Academ. Fiorent. & Jo. Lamii in Antiq. Tabul. Æneum observat. Flor. 1747. Florence Florence; Bulengsrus calls this Space of Time Lujiro Municipale. I have read in Manutius as follows. TIVIR. QVIN. COL. IVL. HISPELL. And thus, BIS. DVOMVIRO. QVINQ. II. VIR. ITER. Qg. Cardinal Noris b was in a Doubt, with respect to the Time of the Duumvirate; wherefore I shall leave it, to be decided by Sig. Gori, and Doctor Lami, who have discoursed very learnedly on that Head c. It remains now to fay something concerning the other Fart of the Inscription in the Front. DESVO. We know that Lucius Annius Mammianus Rufus built the Theatre with its Orchestra, at his own Expence, but connot tell what Letters followed the words Be suo, because the Stone was broke: In Gruterus d we have it thus: DE. SVO; D. D. that is, Dedicaverunt. But whether it is a D. or an F, dedicavit, or fecit, 'tis the Mark of a generous and great Soul: The Marquis Maffei, and the Canon Mazzocchi e imagine dedicavit to be the fame, as posuit, perfecit, as Signor Muratori observes f, who also declares, that he will not decide this Point. Reinesius 1 has it thus: THEATRUM. ET. PROSCENIVM REFECERE. LVDIS. SCENICIS BIDVO. DEDICAR. D. S. P. Manut. Ortograph. b Ccenotaph. Pifan. Corfini. Fasti. Attici. t. 2. c Lettere ad un Academico di Cortona, p. 69. Pag. 307. n. 8. Dell' Anfiteatr. e Mazoch. de Amphi.ieatr. Carapano. 1 Acad. di Cortona, torn. z. pag-149. Inscript. Class. 4. K Hence Hence arises a Curiosity to know what the Orchestra was. Justus Lipsius fays, it was the...