96 ROLFE— THE USE OF DEVICES FOR 



donate, VI., 1377, 8; procedens, VI.. 1527; pacato, VI., 1527; viatori, 

 VI., 1921, 1935 a; felici, VI., 12133; honorato, XII., 3219; Hono- 

 rato, XII., 3637; togatomm, XIV., 409, 14; fatales, XIV., 2553; 

 adoratiiros, XIV., 3608, 17; oratione, XIV., 3608, 31. 



There is a decided tendency to mark quantities in personal names, 

 perhaps as an indication of honor (see p. 84), or in some cases to 

 insure their correct pronunciation : many men object to having their 

 names misspelled or mispronounced. The latter would seem to be the 

 reason for Cam'nio, M. A., III., 16, in a list of ten consuls, of which 

 no other name has (or apparently needs) an indication of quantity: 

 Caninius occurs in X., 3036, Camnio twice in XIV., 2556, and in VI., 

 14343 Canmio is the only word marked in an inscription of five 

 lines. Names which are frequently marked are lulius and lulia (see 

 p. 84), of which I have thirty-one examples, by no means a complete 

 collection; Marcus and its derivatives, V., 555, 7678, XIV., 2802, 

 etc.; Cornelius, III., 8786, 11690, V., 757 add., 909 add., 1179, twice, 

 six times in C. I. L., XII., etc.; Mars and its derivatives, Antonius 

 and derivatives, V., 115 twice, seven examples in III.; Pollio, V., 

 5906, VI., 1829; four times in XII. 



Nouns indicating relationship are frequently marked, perhaps as 

 a token of honor or respect: for example, uxori, II., 2642, III., 8786 

 twice, VI., 1859, i975» ^"^^ fourteen other examples; filius, VI., 880, 

 1825 and elsewhere, four times in the M. A., but unmarked eight 

 times; f rater, XIV., 2637, 3608, 19 and frequently; mater, V., 1179, 

 6013, 6091, 7678 and frequently. In the last-named inscription 

 fratri, matri, uxori and sorori are all marked, although a second 

 occurrence of sorori is unmarked. In V., 1179, matri is one of only 

 two words marked in an inscription of six lines, the other mark being 

 over CO. It is doubtless to this tendency that the erroneous marking 

 of coniugi is due in V., 1066, and VI., 9914. 



The preposition a is often marked : six times in the M. A. (twice 

 unmarked) and four times in the S. C. (once unmarked) ; also II., 

 3426, III., 12046, VI., 4312, 9970, XIV., 254, 409, 14; 3543, and in 

 numerous other instances. It seems probable that the mark serves 

 merely to separate the preposition from a following noun, whether 

 the two are written as one word or separately, and we also find e, de 

 and pro marked. The marking of monosyllabic words, however, is 



