accounts :  while  in  some  thej  are  described  naked  and  bare^
beaded;  and  in  others  with  improper  coverings  on  their
beads.  Whereas  the  contrary  is  dehvered  in  the  text,  under
all  learned  languages,  and  also  bj  our  own,  with  some
expositions  in  the  margin:  not  naked  in  their  bodies,
,  (according  to  their  %ure  in  the  Moma  SoUerranea  of  Bosio,^
among  the  sepulchral  figures  in  the  monument  of  St.  Pris-
cilla),  but  haying  a  loose  habit,  after  the  Persian  mode,
upon  them,  whereby  it  might  be  said  that  their  ^rments
did  not  so  much  as  smell  of  the  fire ;  nor  bare  on  their  heads,
as  described  in  the  first  chamber  of  the  cemetery  of  Prisoillay
but  having  on  it  a  tiara>  or  cap,  after  the  Persian  fuhion,
made  somewhat  reclining  or  faUmg  agreeable  unto  the  third
table  of  the  fif)^  cemetery,  and  the  mode  of  the  Persian  sub-
jects; not  a  peaked,. acuminated,  and  erected  cap,  proper
unto  their  kings,  as  is  set  down  in  the  medal  of  ^toninus,
with  the  reverse,  AnMnin,  A  standard  direction  for  thia
piece  might  probably  be  that  ancient  description  set  down
m  the  ^^loar  used  by  the  Emperor  Basuius  Porphyro-
genitus,  and  by  Pope  Paul  the  YifttXf  given  unto  the  Y atican^
where.it  is  yet  conserved.^

'  Botna,  Ae,]  Jacquea  Batio,  JZoma  SoMammea;  left  imperfect  by
him,  but  published  by  his  exeouter,  Aldrovandioi,  fol.  1632 ;  since
translated  mto  Latin,  and  reprinted  several  times,  with  additions. — Or^

*  Numerous  additiens  might  yet  farther  be  made  to  our  author's  collec-
tion of  pictorial  inacouades,  if  such  were  &irly  within  our  province.  It
may  be  allowed  to  us,  at  least,  to  give  one  or  two  references  to  such
additions.  John  Interian  de  Avala,  a  Spanish  monk,  who  died  at  Madrid,
in  1770,  published  a  work  on  the  errors  of  painters  in  representing
religiouB  sabjeets  ;  it  is  entitled  Pidor  Okristianm  Erudituty  fol.  1720.
