THE FIRST SIX CENTURIES. 355 



(d) To a physician: — 53. 



RAPETIGAME 



DICVS CIVIS 



HISPANVS QVI 



VIXITINPANNPM 



XXVHOCPATERNI 



CAITVSFECITDNMA 



MAXIMOAVGII 



{E coem. Cyriacse ; De Rossi, n. 3'75.) 



Hapetiga, medicus, civis Hispanus, qui vixit in p(ace) annos plus 

 minus viginti quinque. Hoc pater Nicaihis (Nicetius) fecit, Domino 

 Nostro Magno Maximo Augusto iterum. 



" Eapetiga, a physician, a citizen of Spain, who lived in peace twenty- 

 l^Te years, more or less. Nicetius, his father, made this, in the Consulship 

 of our Lord Magnus Maximus Augustus, for the second time," i.e. 388, a..d^ 



(c.) To a baker: — 54. 



HIC EST POSITVS BITALIS PISTOR iWA 

 SHICESRSXIIOVIBICSITA^ 

 NVSPLMINVSNXLVDEPC 

 SITVSINPACINATALED 

 OMNESSITIRETISTERT 

 IVMIDVSFEBBCONSVL.^ 

 TVMPLV MCEN T I VV CG 

 CONSS 



(In coenobio S. Pauli via Ostiensi; De Rossi, n. 495.) 



Sic est positus Bitalis (Vitalis) pistor regionis XII, 



pvi (qui) vicsit (vixit) annus (annos) plus 7ninus numero XLV. 

 Ikpositus in pad (pace) natale (natali) Domnes (Dominas) Sitiretis 

 (Soteridis) tertium (tertio) Idiis Februarias Constdatum (Consulatu) 

 Flavii Vincentii [et Fraviti], Virorum Clarissimorum, Consulum. 



" Here has been placed Vitalis, a baker of the twelfth 



region, who lived forty-five years, more or less. Buried, in peace, on 

 the birth-day of Saint *Soteres, the third day before the Ides of Feb- 



* Thus, De Rossi, Index, p. 619 ; but Aringhi, i., p. 288, gives Soter. 

 Soter is the name of a man ; Soteres — otherwise Soteris and Soteria (in 

 Jewish epitaphs, Orelli, n. 2523, Henzen, n. 6144) — is the name of a woman. 

 Hence, in epitaph n. 46, I should prefer the translation, " Lampadius 

 and Soteres, his most affectionate brother and sister," to the version 



