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of the Freedmen and Slaves of Livia Augusta. 



407 



The lexicographers mention an additional slguiricatlou of Ro 

 gator, viz. an officer in the theatres, whose business it was tn mllp. 



dresses 



d 



decorations for the use of the stage. And Ficoi 



his work on mask 



ptions where it is used 



P 



S 



produces three in- 

 There is an inscription 



Muratori, where the Rogator of the theatre is mentioned, hut 



r 



is there expressly 



Rog 



a S 



r 



probably have been in the inscription befor 



as he 

 Mor 



Id also 



prepared to find so large a number of theatrical officers 



kind, in the household of the empi 

 Decurion of Rogators. 



ould 



plied by 



a 



fi 



With regard to the last line of the inscription, I am unable, 

 3m my limited acquaintance with monuments of this kind, to de- 

 termine, whether anotlier individual be spoken of, — or whether 

 Dionysius, the Decurion of the Rogators of Livia be the same 



perso 



h 



is called, in the last line, Caius Julius Felix, the 





freedman of Caius and his 



If they be the same person 



perhaps remarkable that he should have four names, nor does it 

 appear particularly in what order these four names are to be read. 

 If it be a different person, who is mentioned in the last line, he is 



r 



left without any designation of office, or any thing to indicate his 

 connexion with the Dionysius of the two first lines. Similar cases, 

 however, are found among these inscriptions, and that, of which I 

 have already quoted a part, is one, Eros Augustae Libertus Roga- 

 tor 5 Livia Lezbia 5 in which the female mentioned is doubtless the 

 wife of Eros. 



With regard to the Caius, of whom and of his wife Caius Julius 

 Felix in the last line, is said to be the freedman, it may deserve to be 



t 



pccifie 



that he was the son of Marcus Agrippa and Jul 



adopted with his brother Lucius, by Augustus 



Retui 



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