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A Few Parting Words.
anxieties and cheered their labours by their literary efforts and their genial patronage , and in bidding them farewell in these monthly pages hope , and would ask to continue to forward their valuable and pleasant papers to the always friendly pages of the " Freemason . " There is no cessation of active Masonic literary life ; its " venue" alone is changed , in that it is only transferred to more numerously circulated and more widely read columns .
The Roman Collegia.
THE ROMAN COLLEGIA .
No . IV . BY MASONIC STUDENT . IN reference to this subject , and concerning which this is my last , think it ht to remind readers that several distinct
paper , I rig my inscriptions at any rate refer lo the Coll . Fabrorum or Fabrum . Two of these stand out markedly from the others ; the one is the Bath inscription , recorded by Hearne , Musgrave and Dodwell ; the other is the Chichester one , mentioned first , I believe , by Gale . There is also a
curious inscription in the "Archasologia , " which seems to point to the fact apparently that the Companies , or Collegia , or centuriag of masons or builders , were divided into certain " centurias , " or sections , or divisions , over which was a centurio . But there is a little uncertainty about the exact date of this inscription , and as it is rather held , if I
remember rightly , to refer even to monastic builders , I leave it out of our present consideration . The inscription in Musgrave ' s " Antiquitates Religiose , " vol . iii ., is to the following effect : —
JULIUS VITA LIS . FABRIC , ES IS . LEG XX V . V . STIPEN DIOR UM , IX ANNOR XX IX NATIONEBE LGA EXCOLEGO FABRICE ELATU
S . USE . Julius Vitalis Fabricensis Legio XX Valenis Victrix Stipendiorum IX . Annorum XXIX Natipne Belga . Ex Collegio Fabricee Elatus . Hie situs est . The English translation would thus read :
" Here is placed Julius Vitalis , departed this life from the College of the Building of the Fabricenses ( builders or masons ) of the XX . Legio Valens Victrix , having served nine years in the army , in the XXIX year of his age . Of the nation of the Belgee . "
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A Few Parting Words.
anxieties and cheered their labours by their literary efforts and their genial patronage , and in bidding them farewell in these monthly pages hope , and would ask to continue to forward their valuable and pleasant papers to the always friendly pages of the " Freemason . " There is no cessation of active Masonic literary life ; its " venue" alone is changed , in that it is only transferred to more numerously circulated and more widely read columns .
The Roman Collegia.
THE ROMAN COLLEGIA .
No . IV . BY MASONIC STUDENT . IN reference to this subject , and concerning which this is my last , think it ht to remind readers that several distinct
paper , I rig my inscriptions at any rate refer lo the Coll . Fabrorum or Fabrum . Two of these stand out markedly from the others ; the one is the Bath inscription , recorded by Hearne , Musgrave and Dodwell ; the other is the Chichester one , mentioned first , I believe , by Gale . There is also a
curious inscription in the "Archasologia , " which seems to point to the fact apparently that the Companies , or Collegia , or centuriag of masons or builders , were divided into certain " centurias , " or sections , or divisions , over which was a centurio . But there is a little uncertainty about the exact date of this inscription , and as it is rather held , if I
remember rightly , to refer even to monastic builders , I leave it out of our present consideration . The inscription in Musgrave ' s " Antiquitates Religiose , " vol . iii ., is to the following effect : —
JULIUS VITA LIS . FABRIC , ES IS . LEG XX V . V . STIPEN DIOR UM , IX ANNOR XX IX NATIONEBE LGA EXCOLEGO FABRICE ELATU
S . USE . Julius Vitalis Fabricensis Legio XX Valenis Victrix Stipendiorum IX . Annorum XXIX Natipne Belga . Ex Collegio Fabricee Elatus . Hie situs est . The English translation would thus read :
" Here is placed Julius Vitalis , departed this life from the College of the Building of the Fabricenses ( builders or masons ) of the XX . Legio Valens Victrix , having served nine years in the army , in the XXIX year of his age . Of the nation of the Belgee . "