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Pro salute | T. Caeaarig Aug. f. Imp. Vespasiani, | Ti. Claudius 

 Clemens fecit. | T. Naevius Diadumen(u8) cur(ator) col(legii) 

 3ubrutor(um) | cultor(um) Silvani p(ecunia) 8(ua) r(efecit ?) 



C. I. L. VI, 940. 



There is no doubt that the suhrutores were "wreckers," who 

 cleared up the ruins of buildings that had suffered from fire or other 

 causes. 



Templum Pacis. Suet. Vesp. 9; p. 230, 1. 28. We have no 

 inscription connected with the Templum Pacis; but C. I. L. VI, 935, 

 was engraved on the epistyle of the Templum Sacrae Urbis. C. I. 

 L. 985 certainly does not belong to a temple of Saturn as stated by 

 Schiller (Geschichte der rom. Kaiserzeit, p. 517, n. 6) ; nor do I 

 believe that it is at present safe to assign C. I. L. VI, 937, to the 

 temple of Saturn, although it is so referred even by Kiepert and 

 Hiilsen (Formae Urbis Roniae, p. 87). 



Vespasian's work in restoring various shrines won him the 

 designation "restitutor aedium sacrarum." C. I. L. VI, 934. 



Senatorial and equestrian orders. Amplissimos ordines, et ex- 

 haustos caedi varia et contaminatos veteri negligentia, purgavit sup- 

 plevitque recenso senatu et equite, &c. - - - - Suet. Vfsp. 9; p. 230, 

 1. 33 seq. Many inscriptions show his work in this connection, and 

 one should note the following among the citizens adlecti inter prae- 

 torios. Cornutus TertuUus, so well known from the letters of PHny, 

 C. I. L. XIV, 2925; L. Baebius Avitus, C. I. L. VI, 1359; Nonius 

 Bassus (cf. next, note) C. I. L. IX, 5533; Plotius ? Firmus. C. I. 

 L. XI, 18321. I am almost sure that this is the rather remarkable 

 Plotius Firmus mentioned as a friend and supporter of Otho in Tac. 

 Hist. I 46, 82; 11 46, 49. He probably passed into the service of 

 Vespasian after Otho's death, which he had tried so hard to prevent. 



Salvius Liberalis Nonius Bassus. Suet. Vesp. 13 ; p. 231, 1. 33 seq. 

 An inscription of peculiar interest records the career of this free- 



