354 CHRISTIAN EPITAPHS OP 



TVM NONAS AVGV 

 STAS FLAVIO FILIPPO 

 ET FLAVIO SALLE A CON 

 SVLIBVS PATER SABBA 

 TIVS FE CIT 



( ? ; De Rossi, n. 10 1.) 



Felix vita viri, felicior exitus ipse ! 

 Caiani semper crescit per scecula nomen. 

 Nescit fama mori, sed semper vibit (rivit) uhique, 

 Advem.it hospes Romanus princeps in urbem, 

 Qui fuit hie primum juris consultor amicus. 

 Quiescit in pacem (pace), depositus diem (die) quartum (quarto) 



nonas Augustas, Flavio Filippo (Philippo) et Flavio Sallea (Salia) 



Consulibus, Pater Sdbbatius fecit. 



"Happy the life of the man, happier the death itself! The renown 

 of Caianus shall ever increase throughout (all) ages. Fame knows not 

 ■death, but ever lives, and everywhere. The Roman Emperor came, a 

 stranger, to the city, whose first friend was this lawyer. He rests in 

 peace. Buried on the fourth day before the Nones of August, in the 

 Consulship of Flavius Phiippus and Flavius Salia (i.e. August 2nd, 348, 

 A.D.) His father, Sabbatius, made" (this). 



1. 2, Read crescet for crescit. 1. 4. Read princeps Romanus for 

 Romanus princeps, or insert princeps between advenit and hospes. 

 1. 5. Read cui for qui, and primus for primum. The Roman 

 Emperor was Constantino the Great, and the year, which is referred 

 to, of his coming to Rome, is 326, A.D. 



(c.) To a prsefect of the city: — 52. 



IVN'BASSVS-V-C-QVI VIXIT ANNIS-XLII MENU IN IPSA PRAEPBCTTJRA 

 [VRBI NEOFITVS IIT AD DEVM • VIII • KAL • SEPT EVSEBIO ET YPATI0-C0S8 



(In cryptis Vaticanis; De Rossi, n. 141.) 



Junius Bassus, Vvr Clarissimus, qui vixit annis (annos) XLII, 

 menses II. In ipsa preefectura urbis neojitus (neophytus) ivit ad 

 Deum, VIII Kalendas Septemhres, Eusehio et Ypatio (Hypatio), 

 Consulibus. 



" Junius Bassus, a most distinguished man, who lived forty-two years, 

 two months. Whilst holding the office of Prasfect of the City, he, 

 a neophyte, went to God on the 8th day before the Calends of Sep- 

 tember, in the Consulship of Eusebius and Hypatius," i.e. August 25th, 

 359, A.D. 



