THE FIRST SIX CENTURIES. 



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BOLDETTI, 

 BUBGON, 



Clinton, 

 Db Kossi, 



Fabretti, 



Gkdter, 



Henzen, 



Keneick, 



Kip, 



KiKCHHOFF, 



Mai, 



Maffki, 



Maitland, 



McFaelane, 



MOMMSEN, 

 MtlKATOBI, 



nobthcote, 



Orelli, 



Pbrrbt, 



RB&iSSIUS, 

 BSNISR, 



Osservazioni sopra i cimiterii de' SS, 

 Martiri ed antichi christiani di Roma, 



"Letters from Kome," 



Fasti Hellenici and Fasti Romani, . 



Inscriptiones Christianse Urbis Romse Sep- 

 timo Sseculo Antiquiores, .... 



Inscriptionum Aiitiquarum explicatio, . 



Inscriptiones Antiquse, 



Inscrip. Latin. Select. Collectio, Orelli, iii. 



" Roman Sepulchral Inscriptions," . 



"The Catacombs of Rome," . . . 



Corpus Inscriptionum Grsecarum, iv. 2, . 



Veterum Scriptorum Nova Collectio, 



Museum Veronense, 



"The Church in the Catacombs,'^ . 



"The Catacombs of Rome," . . . 



Inscriptiones Latinse Antiquissimas, . . 



Novus Thesaurus Veterum Inscriptionum, 



"The Roman Catacombs," .... 



Inscrip. Latin. Select. Collectio, . . . 



" Les Catacombes de Rome," . . . 



Syntagma Inscrip. Antiquarum, . . . 



" Inscriptions Romaines de 1' Alg^rie," 



Roma, 1720. 

 London, 1862. 

 Oxford, 1834-1850. 



Romse, 1857-1861. 

 Eomx, 1699. 

 Amsteledsemi, 1707. 

 Turici, 1856. 

 London, 1858. 

 New York, 1859. 

 Berlin, 1859. 

 Romse, 1831. 

 Veronse, 1749. 

 London, 1847. 

 London, 1852. 

 Berlin, 1863. 

 Mediolani, 1739. 

 London, 1857. 

 Turici, 1828. 

 Paris, 1852-1857. 

 Lipsite et Francof-UrU, 

 Paris, 1858. [1685. 



I. Those in which only the Name and Date are btatkd. 



VIBIV • PIMVS R • VII KA • SEP 

 Die • mi • ET • MAX • COS 



(^E *coemeteriQ Calliati; De- Bossi^ a. 16.) 



Yihiu. (Vibius) Fimus^ recesdt, VIZ Kalendast i^temhrei^ IHi^ 

 l^fitno (Diocletiano) lY et Maximiano C^onmWbm, 



"Yibius Fimus retired (from this world), on the seventh day before 

 tb$ Calends of September, in the Consulship of DiocIeMan for the fouiith 

 time,, and Maximian [for the third time]," i.e. August 26,th, 290, a.d. 



De Rossi compares Fimus (dung) with the name Slercorivs, com- 

 monly used by Christians. Thus, also, we find Stercoria applied to 

 females. It is believed that such appellations were chosen by Chri£« 

 tians in humility and self-abasement. I am inclined to think that, 



* Coemeterium is used to denote a "Catacomb/' and the insoriptions, 

 that have been found in the Catacombs, are distinguished by the iei^sa 

 coemeteriales, although the words do not necessarily imply "subterranean." 



