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Prof. Ever pit on an Inscription from the Columbarium 



found in thi? Columbarium^ and numbered xxxiii. and 



of Gori. The first is 



LIVU 



o 



o 



Lezbia 



Gori remarks on this inscription, that neither in Gruter nor his 



tinuator Reinesius^ is any mention made of the office of Rogatory 



he household of the empress. He quotes, however, an inscrip- 



preserved by Fabretti, p. 74, in which the office of Rogator is 



mentioned, but 



which 



nature can be 



ascertained. Fabretti, to explain the term in the inscription allud- 

 ed to, remarks tliat Itogntor was the officer who, at the comitia, car- 

 ried the box to the citizens^ to receive the tablets, on which their 

 suffrages were inscribed, as is shown by Sigonius de Comit. Rom. 

 1. i. c. 3. This is the signification adopted for the word by Bianchini, 

 in the inscription on Eros just quoted. Gori, more judiciously thinks, 

 that the Rogator of Livia might have corresponded to what would 

 be called master of requests^ in a modern royal household, the per- 



He 

 ght possibly have 



:hose, of whom the 



whose business it was to present petitions to the empress 



adds, h 



the remark, that Rog 



been the officer, whose duty it was to apply to 



empress wished any thing ; a signification too vague, and an office 



general and undefined to be admitted 



by a quotat 



He attempt 



fi 



Suetonius, which, how 



othing. (Sueton. Aug. \ 

 That the first interp 



proves 



the correct 



rendered 



probable by the other inscription, ma] 

 Rogator occurs, connected with another 



ked xxxiv. in Gori 



bom 



i 



admissionumy which'would correspond to our designation of Cham 



berlain or Usher 



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