356 CHRISTIAN EPITAPHS OF 



ruary, in the Consulship of Flavins Vinceutius [and Fravitus], m««t 

 distinguished men, Consuls, i.e. February 11th, 401, a.d. 



1. 1. No one has yet been able to explain the word or words 

 formed by the letters between pistor and rs (regionis). Le Bl»it, 

 Inscr. Chret. de la Gaule, i., 279, reads— MAGHICES ; but De 

 Rossi, p. 577, justly rejects this, observing that the ^character 

 between E. and A contains two letters, and may be read either MI, 

 or INI, or even AN. 1. 2. RSXII. Ancient Rome was divided into 

 fourteen regions. This baker had his shop in the twelfth. Thus, 

 in Orelli, n. 1455, we have ptstor Romaniensis ex regione XIIII. 

 11. 4, 5. Domnes. Domina, like the Greek Kvpia, = our " Mistress," 

 was a term of respect applied to females. It is commonly applied 

 to the same who were otherwise called '' Sancta." 1. 5. Sitiretis. 

 This Saint is said to have suffered martyrdom, in the Appian Road, 

 under Diocletian and Maximian, 304, a.d. See Aringhi,- i., p. 288. 



1. 7; Fl. Vincenti. As he alone is mentioned, it appears that the 

 name of the Eastern Consul, Fravitus, or Fravita, was not at the 

 time known in Rome; and yet the plural — WCC CONSS — is used, 

 as if both names had been given. 



(/.) To a gardener: — 55. 



PASCASIVS • ORTOLANV 

 qi IDSIVLIASCOLSDECIVCC 



(In S. Agnetis ; De Kossi, n. 1020.) 



[Hie quiescit] Pascasius ortolanu (hortulanus), [depositus] s^timo 

 Idus Julias, Consulatu Decii, Viri Clarissimi, Consulis. 



"[Here rests] Pascasius, a gardener, buried on the seventh day before 

 the Ides of July, in the Consulship of Decius, a most distinguished man, 

 Consul," i.e. July 9th, 529, or rather, 486, a.d. 



there given. Thus, fratr (bus, in Orelli, n. A583 ; frairum, in Tacitus, An«. 

 xii., 4; ahd "Lucius et Tilia fratrcs cmancipati a pair e," in Paul., Dig. x., 



2, 38, cited by Forccllini, in verb. 



* This character occurs in Roman inscriptions found in Britain, e.gr. 

 in a very perplexing one to the Dese Malres, figured in the " Report of 

 the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, for 1861." It seems as if it might 

 also be read NV, or MV, or NN. De Rossi, in his comment, remarks : 

 " Vox, qux posiremis versus primi et pirioiibus secundi litteris contineiur, millies 

 a me tentata est, sed irrito semper conatu." As this has, also, been the result 

 of my experience, I merely state my impression, that the word is an 

 Ethnic adjective, like Romaniensis. 



