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theopinion tha he wrote ater the edion of he theatres of Marcels and Balbus in the tineof Augustus.
te) la che account the Marquis de Venui gives of the dico. M Itis notimprobable that it may have been the collegue d vin¬
vius mentioned in his first proem; and whose name the coppit
very of Herculaneum, he says, upon being let down into the theatre,
have written P. Numidius, and sometimes Numidicus, or Mim¬
he observed the degrees to be covered with wood, appearing like a
dius; all which variations may have arisen from the incorrect forma-
great wooden staircase —An inscription still remaining over the
tion of the letters in the old manuscripts.
orchestra door of this theatre, records P. Numisius as the architect.