THE FIRST SIX CENTURIES. 289 



XXIII, dies XIV. Bene merenti que (quae) viocit annos XL, 

 mensep XI, dies XIII. Depositio ejus, die III Nonas Octobres, 

 Nepotiano et Facundo Consulibus. In pace. 



" To (one) well-deserving. The sjeeping-place of Aurelia Martina, a 

 most chaste and modest woman, who passed in wedlock twenty-three 

 years, fourteen days. To her, well-deserving, who lived forty years, 

 eleven months, thirteen days. Her burial (took place) on the third day 

 before the Nones of October, in the Consulship of Nepotianus and Fac- 

 undus, [i.e. October 5th, 335, a.d.). In peace." 



1. 1. B. M. These letters stand sometimes for ber^e merenti, some- 

 times for bonce memories, never for beatus or beata martyr (as sug- 

 gested by Bonfant), for which there is no authority. 1. 2. Cubiculum. 

 This term "for the grave or tomb, is found, also, in heathen epitaphs. 

 It is applied, by writers on the Catacombs, to a chamber, which " was 

 appropriated as the private vault, so to call it, of a particular family." 



34. 

 AYR • CANDIDIANAE BENE QVESQVEN 

 TI IN PACE QVAE VIXIT ANNIS XXXI 

 MENSES • Villi • CVM MARITO FVIT ANNOS 

 XI • MENSES • VIII • DIES • X- DEPOSIT A KAL [COSS • 



APRIL • CONSTANTINO AVa • II • ET CONSTANTE AVa • 



{In pavim.' sed. S. Apollinaris ; De Rossi, n. 52.) 



Aurelice Candidiance bene quesquenti (quiescent!) in pace, quae 

 vixit annis (annos) XXXI, menses IX, cum marito fuit annos XI, 

 menses VIII, dies X. Deposita, Kalendis Aprilibus; Constantino 

 Augusto II et Constante Augusto Consulibus. 



" To Aurelia Candidiana, resting well, in peace, who lived thirty-one 

 years, (and) nine months. She was with her husband [i.e. her married 

 life was) eleven years, eight months, (and) -ten days. Buried on the 

 Calends of April, in the Consulship of Constantinus Augustus, for the 

 second time, and Constans Augustus," i.e. April 1st, 339, a.d. 



35. 

 VISCILIVS NICENI • COSTAE • SVAE 

 QVAE FVIT • ANNOR • P • M • XXXI • EX QVIBVS 

 DVRABIT • MECVM ANNOS XV • FECI IN SE 

 SI EO DONO • SIM • EXIBIT • DE SAECVLO 

 VI • IDVS • IVL • MAMERTINO • ET • NEVITA 



{In coem. S. Hermetis ; De Eosgi, n. 151.) 



