THE FIRST SIX CENTURIES. 363 



67. 



LOCVS MARCELLI SVBD • REG • SEXTE CONCESSVM SIBI 



[ET POS 



TERIS EIVS A BEATISSIMO PAPA lOANNE 



QVI VIXIT ANN • PLM • LXVIII DBP PC BASILI VC ANN 



IND • XI • VNDECIMV KAL lANVARIAS [XXII 



{In crypt, basil. Vaticanm ; De Rossi, n. 1096.) 



Locus M orcein, Subdiaconi Regionis sexte (sextge), concessum 

 (concessus) sibi et posteris ejus a beatissimo Papa Joanne, qui 

 vixit annos plus minus LXVIII. Depositus post consulatum Basilii, 

 Viri Clarissimi, anno XXII, Indictione XI, undecimu (undecimo) 

 Kalendas Januarias. 



" The place of Marcellus, a Sub-deacon of the Sixth District, conceded to 

 him, and to his posterity, by the most blessed Father John, who lired 

 sixty-eight years, more or less. Buried in the twenty-second year after the 

 Consulship of Basilius, a most distinguished man (i.e. 563, a.d.), in the 

 eleventh Indiction, on the eleventh day before the Calends of January," 

 i.e. December 22nd. 



1. 1/ Regionis sextce. Pagan Rome was divided, as I have men- 

 tioned in the notes on epitaph 54, into fourteen regions, or districts. 

 The ecclesiastical division was into seven. 



(^.) To an acolyte: — 68. 



VS ACOLVTtw 



N C0NS8 • HOwono. 



(/« S. Pauli; De Rossi, n. 631) 



. . . us Acolutus n Consulibus Honorio et 



"... us, an Acolyte, n, in the Consulship of Honorius and 



," i.e. 422, or 418, or 417, or 415, or 412, or 409, or 40Y, or 398, 



or 386, A.D. 



This is the only notice of an Acolyte that I have observed in 

 a *Roman dated epitaph. As the inscription is very defective, in 

 consequence of the fracture of the stone, I subjoin another, but 

 without the year: — 



* In Mommsen's Inscrip. Neapol., n. 1305, we have one, found at .<Eclanum, 

 to Murrasim Jcoletu$ {$ic) of the date 529. a.d. 



