Note 35 — XIII. An Account of some of the Antiquities discovered at Herculaneum, &c. In a Letter to Thomas Birch, D.D. Secret. R.S. By John Nixon, A.M. F.R.S.
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Quem Venus artbitrum dicet bibendi? L. ii. od. 7. v. 25. Some think, that this cast was also named basilicus from the usage here mentioned. Sanad. in Loc.