[137] See Imhof. Lib. x. cap. 16.

[138] Spon, who has published this inscription, observes, that by these QVADRIBIS might be meant, seminumina quadriviis praesidentia; quales in biviis et triviis Hermi seu Mercurii ab antiquis culti. Miscell. erud. antiq. pag. 84.

[139] Vid. Apul. De Iside: Cujus numen unicum multiformi specie, ritu vario, nomine multijuge totus veneratur orbis. Metam. Lib. ii. pag. 280.

[140] See an instance of this in Sweden, reported in the Huetiana, p. 124. N. LIV.

[141] Ovid. Fast. L. i. ℣. 205.

Nec pudor in stipula placidam cepisse quietem,

Et foenum capiti supposuisse, fuit.

[142] These two are published both in Grut. but each of them with some little variation. pag. CCCLII, n. 5. and Fleetwood, pag. 152.

[143] ΟΦΡ ΑΝ ΕΣ ΑΔΩ.

[144] Cap. 17.