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Caledonia was attended with great difficulties, yet the Emperors were 
safe—or A.D, 211. 
5. In the Ephemeris Epigraphica, 1877, Vol. IIL., pp. 161-163 
and 203, 204, there are Additamenta to Prof. Mommsen’s article on 
Tessere Gladiatorie, in Vol.I.of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. 
From these it appears that there are now* known to exist six examples 
of the word spectavit in full, viz. : 
(1) DIOCLES (2) PHILOMVSVS PERELI 
VECILI SPECTAVIT 
SPECTAVIT 
f= DV “K* REBR, 
(3) PROTEMVS FALERI (4) GENTI:PACONI:T:S. 
SPECTAVIT SPECTAVIT 
Nis S: 
(5) MENOPIL: ABI’ L°S: (6) PAMPHIL * SOCIORW 
SPECTAVIT SPECTAVIT 
C:VAL:M: HER. 
2.¢., (1) Diocles, Vecili (servus), spectavit, a(nte) d(iem) q(wintum) 
K(alendas) F(ebruarias). (2) Philomusus Pereli (servus), spectavit. 
(3) Protemus Faleri (servus), spectavit, N(onis) S(extilibus) or 
S(eptembribus). (4) Genti(us) Paconi Titi) S(ervus), spectavit. 
(5) Menopil(us) Abi L(ucii) S(ervus) spectavit Caio) Val(erio) 
Marco) Her(ennio) (Consulibus) t.e., A.V.C. 66192 B.C. (6) 
Pamphil(us) Sociorum (servus) spectavit. In 1863, the most ancient 
then known was of the date 85 B.C. The only real difficulty is in 
SP, which has been expanded by spectatus, spectator or spectavit, to 
which we should now, perhaps, add spectat, or we may regard spectat 
as an abbreviation of spectator —spectator | fuit] being believed to be 
= spectavit. In the volume of the Canadian Journal for that year, 
there is an article by me on the subject. From that article I subjoin 
extracts, as I cannot but regard the suggestion given there as more 
probable than any other explanation that I have seen, even including 
that offered by Prof. Mommsen, and stated at the close of the article 
in the Lphemeris Epigraphica, Vol. III., p. 163: 
**In mentem venit Momseno (mihique visum est probari posse) gladiatores 
rude donatos fortasse transiisse ex arena in carcerem, spectandique ius adeptos 
esse ibi, ubi antea spectabantur. ius iuris initium memorize tradi potuit, 
veluti honesta missio quedam in tesseris gladiatoriis, Horatii versus sane 
non obstat huic opinioni.” 
* In 1863 there were only two (doubtful) specimens of tessere giving the word spectavit. 
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