THE FIRST SIX CENTUaiES. 357 



(jr.) To an ex-quaestor: — 56. 

 HIC REQVIESCINT IN PACE PRAETEXTATVS VI EX 

 QVEvSTOE SCP • DP • VII • IDVS • OCTOBE, • FESTO VC • CONS 

 ET FILIA EIVS PRAETEXTATA • CF • DP ■ XV • KAL • 



[AVG.DECIO VC C 



(/« S. ilartini; De Rossi, n. 844.) 



Hie requiescint (requiescunt) in pace Prcetextatus, Vir lUustris, 

 exrqucestore Sacri JPalatii, depositus VII Idtcs Octohres, Festo, Viro 

 Clarissimo, Consule, et filia ejus Prcetextata, Clarissima Femina, 

 deposita XV Kalendas Augustas, Decio, Viro Clarissimo, Consule. 



"Here rest in peace, Prfetextatiis, an illustrious man, ex-queestor of 

 the Sacred Palace, buried on the seventh day before the Ides of October, 

 in the Consulship of Festus, a most distinguished man (i.e. October 9th, 

 il2, A. D.), and his daughter Prastextata, a most distinguished woman, 

 buried on the fifteenth day before the Calends of August, in the Con- 

 sulship of Decius, a most distinguished man," i.e. July 18th, 486, a.d. 



1. 2. SCP. Sacri Falatii, scil. of the Emperor. See Epitaph 

 n. 50, and Nbtitici, chap. xv. and xiv., vol. ii., ed. Bocking. 



(/i.) To a soldier:— 57. 



ENOAAETONArPHrOPON 

 YHNONKAQEYAEI^IAE 

 EVrNOMONIOSnPOTIKTOP 

 TONPENNAIOTATON 

 API©M0YMAPTH2lONnPG 

 AnEA®ONTOYKA©HMA2 

 BIOYMHNIIOYAIOYAEKA 

 THINAENAEKATHYITA 

 T , . . S^ABIOYMAPNOY 

 ..... TOYMEPAAOnRE 

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 {In Museo Parisiensi ; Kirchhoff, n. 9449.) 



'Ev^aSe Tov dypYyopov vttvov KaOevSei, (f>i\e, Evyvwjuoi'tos, TrporiKTop 

 (irpoTiKTOip) Twv yevvatoraTCDV dptOfJbov Mapryjcrcwv, TrpoaTreX^wv rov 

 KaO' rjp.a.<i fiiov firjvl 'lovXtov SeKarrj, iv8tKTL(i)Vi ivSeKarr], {iTrartas $ajStou 

 Mciyvov [[/xovouj roB fieyaXoTrpeTreaTaTov. 



" Here, friend, Eugnomonius sleeps the sleep that knows no waking, 

 a Protector, of the detachment of the most noble Martenses, having gone 



