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Independent of t!)ese inscriptions peculiar to each groupe, 

 there was another which occupied perhaps the whole length of 

 the bas-relief, and which probably contained an account of the 

 personage to whom this tomb belonged, and of the games which 

 were celebrated at his funeral : there now remain a few words 

 only, and part of these even is effaced. M. Millin reads thus : 

 MVNERE QViNTi AMPLiATi PUBLII FiLii SVMMO, and he in- 

 terprets them into " tlu? last offices performed to Quintus Am- 

 pliatus, the son of Publius." This explanation he thinks is sim- 

 ple and natural, and he enters into a long discussion in support 

 of it : this discussion was provoked by another inscription found 

 a short distance from the tomb, and which has been placed on 

 its principal front because it was thought to belong to it, and 

 because it fits tiae place extremely well where it has been fixed. 

 If this inscription really belonged to this tomb, it was not Quin- 

 tus Ampliatus, but one called Riccius Scaurus, a Duumvir, whose 

 ashes it contained ; and Ampliatus can only be regarded as the 

 magistrate who superintended tb.e games celebrated in honour 

 of this Scaurus ; so that the fragment of the inscription in ques- 

 tion* ought to be interpreted in this manner: "In the great 

 games which were given under the direction of Qiiinliis Am- 

 pliatus." M. MiUin thought at first this last interpretation was 

 forced, and not conformal)le to the rules of good latinity. He 

 inclined to think that the inscription which seems to ascribe the 

 monunlent to Riccius Scaurus, really could not have belonged to 

 this monument. Subsequently, however, the maimer in which 

 the stone fitted the tomb, and the discovery of another inscrii)tion 

 found in the Easilicon, compelled him to change his opinion. 

 This inscription speaks of one Ampliatus, the manager of a troop 

 of gladiators. It is thus conceived : 



N . . 1<KST1 . AMPLIATI . 



FAMILIA GJ.ADIATORIA . PVGXA r'ERVM 



rVGNA XVI K . IVN VENAT VKI.A 



*' Th? troop of gladiators of N. Festus Ampliatus will com- 

 bat for die second time. Combat the XVI. of the Kalends of 

 June, Hunting and Hawking." 



* It is thus coiiciivfJ : 



lUCIO AV MF.N 

 SCAVllO 



II VI u in 



.FXVRUINES U;CV.M MONVM 



(X) (X) IN tVSr.RK V.T STATVAM UQVESTR. 



HillO. I'ONr.VDAM CENSVKllVNT 



SCAVRVS I'ATER VILIO. 



T(. Rici.iiis Srniiiiis son of A. of the IMeiipniaii tribe, Duumvir for the 

 admiiiistiiitiijii of ju-ticc; the Dccunoncs liiivc f:ivcn the liiouikI for the 

 moiiuuitiit, :iii(l 'jijOO scbteices for tlic i'uiicra!, and ilecreed the fitctiou 

 of an ciiiiLStriuii statue in the roriMii. .Scauius the fatlier t» his hon. 



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