THE FIRST SIX CENTURIES. 285- 



The terms designating animals were commonly applied as names 

 of persons, both by pagans and by Christians, who, also, were in 

 the habit of using figures of those animals as representatives, as in 

 modern heraldry we have " canting arms," amies parlantes. Thus,. 

 in the Catacombs, we find a lion for a man named Leo, a little pig 

 for a girl named Porcella, with the object, as is believed, of enabling 

 those who could not read, to distinguish the loculus of a friend or- 

 relative. 



(6.) To a mother:— 27. 



TIGKITI BEMEMERIII IN PACE 

 QVE VICSIT ANNOSXXX 

 MEN • II • DEPOSITA • VIII • KAL 

 IAN • DD • NN • TEVDOSIO • III • ET 

 EVGENIO 

 EILIVS EECEI MATEI 



(/w Lat.; De Rossi, n. 414.)!' 



Tigriti (Tigridi) benemeriii (benemeritas), in pace, que (quae) 



vicsit (vixit) annos XXX, menses II. Deposita, VIII Kalendas 



Januarias, Dominis Nostris Teudosio (Theodosio) III et Eugenio.- 



Eilius (filius) eecei (feci) matri. 



"To Tigris, well - deserving, in peace, who lived thirty years, two 

 months. Buried on the eighth day before the Calends of January, (in the 

 Consulship of) our Lords Theodosius, for the third time, and Eugenius " 

 («.«. December 25th, 393, a.d.). I, (her) eoh, made (this) for (my) mother." 



(c) To a husband:— 28. 



DEPOSSIO IVNIANI PRIIDVS APRILES MARCELLING 



[ET PROBING CGNSS- 

 QVI BIXIT ANNIS XL IN PACE RECESSIT ET AMATGR 



[PAVPERGRVM YIXIT 

 CVM BRGINIA ANNIS • XV -^ENEMERENTI BIRGINIA SVA 



[BICTGRA 

 BENSJMERENTI FECIT AMATRIX PAVPERGRVM ET 



[GPERARIA 

 (In Mus. Lat. ; De Rossi, n. 62.) 



Depossio (depositio) Juniani, pridie Idws Apriles, MarcelUno et 

 Probino Consulihus, qui bixit (vixit) annis (annos) XL. In pace 

 decissit (decessit) et amator pauperorwrn. (pauperum), vixit cum 

 hyinia {vijiginia) annis (annos) XF. Bene merenti, birginia (vir-^ 



