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THE CANADIAN JOURNAL 



NEW SERIES. 



No. LXy.— SEPTEMBER, 1867. 



CHKISTIAN EPITAPHS OF THE FIRST SIX CENTURIES. 



BY THE REV. JOHN McCAUL, LL.D., 



PEE8IDEST OP XJNIVEBSITT COLLEGE, TOBONTO, ETC. 



The following article contains the substance of a paper on the 

 funereal inscriptions of the early ages of Christianity, that I read 

 before the Canadian Institute, and, also, of a public lecture thai I 

 delivered on the same subject. I have availed myself of the oppor- 

 tunity, presented by its publication, to introduce many additional 

 examples, and to arrange them all in classes. The selection of the 

 inscriptions has been made without any controversial aim, and solely 

 with a view to their forming a useful introduction to the study of 

 Christian Archaeology, so far as it is illustrated by the epitaphs of 

 the first six centuries. I have limited myself to those inscriptions, 

 within this period, that bear dates, so that there may be no question 

 as to their age. No example has been given without ^examination 



* No one, but those conversant with epigraphy, can fully appreciate 

 the necessity for such examination. There are whole classes of in- 

 scriptions so justly suspected, that no scholar would accept one of 

 them without the greatest caution ; such, for example, are the Span- 

 ish, given under the name of Cyriac of Ancona, or on the authority of 

 Morales or Occo, or the Italian, vouched for by Ligorio, a name of 



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