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Those whom we see there fight with lances : they bear a small 

 round buckler {par ma), which is particularly suitable for horse- 

 men, because it is lighter than the scutum, and are clothed only 

 in a short tunic and a small chlamys : the vizor of their helmet 

 is not down, and the countenance is completely exposed. 



M, Miilin enters into some curious details on the subject of 

 the inscriptions which are over the heads of these combatants. 

 We read above the first BEBRYX lUL. XV. V ; and above the 

 second NOBIL. FOR. IV. XII. M. Miilin interprets the one 

 Bebryx Jiiliensis XF. vicit, "Bebryx the Frioulian has con- 

 quered fifteen times ;" and the other " NobiUs Forojidienns XII. 

 {uicii), "A Noble Frioulian has conquered twelve times." 

 Bebryx and Kolilis are their names : there is nothing surprising 

 ill this last, as the proper name of a gladiator, since we find one 

 in Winckelman Monum. ined. No. 197, who is called Hahilis : 

 as to Bebryx, which properly speaking is an adjective designating 

 an inhabitant of Bebrycia, a celebrated country of Asia, where 

 the inhabitants were renowned for bodily strength and their 

 address in gymnastic exercises, it is proved that it had be- 

 come a proper name, since we have an example in Muratori 

 MDCCLXXXIV. 40: thus it may have been the name of a 

 gladiator, although he was not born in Bebrycia. lUL. and FOR. 

 lUL. designate the country of our two gladiators. There can 

 be no doubt that the letters FOR. lUL. are the initials of the 

 word Fornjnliensis, which means an inhabitant of Frejus or Frioul 

 [Forum Jvlium or Julii). As to the letters lUL. which are 

 repeated above the other gladiators of the same bas-relief (witli. 

 the exception of one only), M. Miilin thinks with great pro- 

 bability that they are also the initials of the word Juliensis, which 

 is all that remains for Forojulitnsis, and that all these gladiators 

 were natives of the same place. It remains to be decided if they 

 were Frejuliane or Frioulians : M. Miilin prefers regarding them a« 

 Frejulians, because we know that Gaul furnished abundance of 

 gladiators. The letters XV. V. and XII. designate, according to 

 AI. Miilin, the number of victories gained by Bebryx and hia 

 adversary Nobilis, which seems to him the only rational expla- 

 nation which can be given of it, since the same formula is re- 

 peated in all the other inscriptions : it must only be supposed 

 that the last letter V is wanting in the second. This conjecture 

 supplies M. Miilin with an oppottuftity of removing a consider- 

 able degree of obscurity in the elegant \'enusiau inscription 

 mentioned above : " This inscription," he says in a note, " i% 

 separated into four divisions by the words Equites, Traces^ 

 MyrmilloiU'S, Felites, Oploniachi, Satrmites, Uetiarii, Scisores, 

 Gain, which designate the different classes of gladiators of this 

 troop. The name of the gladiator is frequently accompanied 

 Wy the initials of another word, of wliich Fabretti ami Lupuli 



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