XXVI. 



On 



an Inscription from the Columbarium of the Freedmen and 



Slaves of Livia Augusta. 



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BY EDWARD EVERETT, 



IN 



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HAD the good fortune while in Rome, in the winter of 1818 — 

 1819, to procure an inscription, hitherto inedited, from the Colum- 

 barium, or sepulchre, of the slaves and freedmen of Livia Augusta, 



wife of August 



Larg 



collections of inscriptions from this 

 the hands of the learned, and all of 



remarkahle monument are in 



them, that had been discovered at the time of their respective pub 



ing 



viz: 



Monumentum, sive Columbarium libertorum et servorum LivisB 

 AugustiB et Csesarum, Romse dectectum, in via Appia Anno 

 CI3I3CCXXVII, ab Antonio Francisco Gorio, presbytero baptis- 

 terii Florentini descriptum, et xx aare incisis tabulis illustratura, 

 adjectis notisCl. V. Antonii Marias Salvinii. Florentia, 1727. fol. 



Camera ed Inscrizioni Sepulcrali de' liberti, scrvi ed ufficiali 

 della Casa di Augusto, Scoperte nella via Appia, ed illustrate con 

 le annotazione di Monsignor Francisco Bianchini, Veronese ; I'anno 



1727. 



Besides these two classical works, one hundred and seventy- 

 three of these inscriptions are found in the Appendix to HesseFs 

 preface to his edition of the Inscriptions of Gudius, having been 

 Aomraunicated to Hessel by Duker, who had received them from 



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