May xvii.
This being Sunday, we had divine service and a sermon at his Excellency’s lodgings, and then dined again with the General. And in the evening I was favoured by my landlord, Mr. George Reisner, senator of the city (an ingenious and learned person, who had studied ten years in Holland) with his coach and company to visit his garden, beyond the walls and mote of the city; near to which adjoins a famous large and intire crucifix cut in stone, much adored by the papists of this country. The same gentleman gave me notice of three Roman inscriptions which, as I was informed, had been brought from Ulpia Trajana. The first was upon a stone coffin in the market place, of which the following is a copy.
T. VAREN. T. F. PAP. SABINIANO EQ. R.
FLAM. LAVRENTINO ITEM FLAM.
COL. SARMIZ. DEC. COL. SAR. ET APVL.
E. M. V. OMNIB. EQVESTRIB. MILIT. PERFUNC.
CORNEL. LVCILLA CONIVX PILA EXTRVC
TA. SARCOFAGVM IN QVO VARENIA
PROBINAQVE SABINIANI SOROR CONDITA
ERAT ETIAM EIVS CORPORE CONLOCA
TO SVPERPOSVIT[117].
The others were in the house of General Rabutin, upon the base of two pillars, as I have here given them.
I. O. M.
M. ROMAN
VS INCOL
PVS
EX VOTO.
I. O. M.
C. SEMPRONIVS
VRBANVS
PROC. Φ. AVG[118].
The same gentleman shewed me also the cathedral church of this place, entertained me with the music of the organ, and presented me with a book called Breviculus de nationibus Transylvanicis. Another on the same subject was given me the day before by the rector scholae Cibiniensis, which place with the adjoining library I then visited. This night I likewise returned a visit to the reverend Isaacus Zabanius, primarius pastor Cibiniensis, et ecclesiae cathedralis decanus, by whom and his wife I was kindly entertained above three hours. He then gave me an Answer, which he had formerly compiled, to Campiani Rationes decem.