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  that their hatred continued after they had torn him in pieces; and by an Act of the Senate it was commanded, That he should not be men­tioned in any future Record, and that all his statues should be destroyed; and their command was so well executed, That there is not to be seen in Rome any inscription of his name, unless in such places where he is numbred among the other Emperors, nor does there remain in the whole Roman Empire, any of his statues except one, which was left upon this following occa­sion.

Domitian had a Princess to his Wife, so ho­norable and good, she never did mischeif, nor so much as offended any person alive, and al­ways disapproved the crimes of her Husband; so that being exceedingly beloved, after the death of Domitian, the Senate sent for her, gave her leave to make her demands, and promised to grant them without difficulty. The vertuous Lady desired liberty to bury the Body of her Husband, and erect a statue of Brass for him, where she should think it convenient, and the Senate complying, she contrived that of which I speak, to leave to posterity a Monument of the cruelty of those persons who made away her Husband: She caused the pieces of his Body to be found out, and having joyned and placed them in order as well as she could, she shewed them to the Statuaries, who taking his Mold, cast him afterwards in Brass, and she caused it to be set up at the Foot of the Mountain of the Capitol, on the right hand as you come from the