May xxv.
We proceed three Hungarian miles to Clausenburg, the Zeugma of the antients, by the Hungarians called Kolosvar, and in Latin Claudiopolis. Here Governor Banti met my Lord half a mile out of the town, and treated him at diner; after which taking leave, he presented him with a set of six fine coach horses. It is a fair city with a broad and straight street; but still retains on the houses and churches the marks of a dreadful fire, which about five years since almost entirely consumed it. It is seated upon the first branch of the river Samos, and is entirely surrounded with an antient thick wall, on the inside of which I was shewn the two following inscriptions, the latter whereof has the characters beautifully cut.
FORTVNAE AVG.
V L P. MASCV
LINVS VTE. EX
SIGNIF. LEG. V. M.
TE EC. COL. AP. PRO
SA. SVA. TE. SVOR. PL
D. M.
M. AVREL ... PAPIA .. AVG. COL. N. AP[123].
VIXIT ANNIS LX
AVRELIA BONA CONIVX MA
RITO ER. H. CIENO ... VM[124] CV
RAVIT
The Unitarians, who are one of the sects received in Transylvania, have here established their principal seat. I conversed with one of them, Stephanus Stanizlo, professor of philosophy, with whom I visited their plebanus, or chief pastor, and saw their church and college. I likewise visited the Calvinist pastor, as also their church and college, where I saw M. B. Nemethi their professor of philosophy, Sam. Nemethi the divinity professor being absent. In several public places of the city I observed antient dates of time, particularly over one of the gates, where the year was marked, with these characters,
that is 1477; and over the Unitarian college thus,
, which is 1476[125]. Here Count Bethlen’s commission ending, his Excellency is provided for by Baron Vesselini.