364 CHRISTIAN EPITAPHS OP 



ACE ABVNDANTIVS ACOlT- 

 REG QV ARTE TT VESTINE QVI VIXIT ANN • XXX 

 DEPINPD NATSCTMARCI MENSE SE OCTIND XII 



(/w S. Agnetis via Komeniana ; De Eossi, n. 1185.) 



[Hie requiescit in p]ftce, Abundantms, Acolutus Regionis quarte 

 (quartee), Tituli Vestine (Vestinse), qui vixit annos XXX. Deposi- 

 tus in pace die natali Sancti Marci mense Octobri, Indictione XII. 



" Here rests in peace, Abundantius, an Acolyte of the Fourth District, of 

 the parish-church of Vestina, who lived thirty-years. Buried, in peace, on the 

 birth-day of Saint Mark, in the month of October, in the twefth Indiction," 



1. 2. Regionis quartee. See note on epitaph n, 68. Tituli Vestince. 

 On this meaning of Titulus, see Du Cange, in verb. 1. 3. Die natali 

 Sci Marci. This Saint Mark is the Pope of that name, who suc- 

 ceeded Saint Sylvester, in 336, a.d. SE. These letters were repeated 

 in mistake by the stone-cutter. Reinesius assigns 414, A.D., as the 

 date of this inscription, but there is no ground for fixing even the 

 century. Jacuti places it in the fourth ; but De Rossi's suggestion, 

 that it was of the sixth or seventh, is much more probable. This 

 inscription, is, at present, to be seen in the portico of the Basilica of 

 St. Mark ; it is, however, not the original, for that is not extant, 

 but a modern copy on marble. 



(Ji.) To an exorcist : — 69. 



HIC • REQVIESCIT -IN 

 SOMNO • PACIS • CAELIVS 

 IVHANNIS • EXHORCISTA 

 QVI • VIXIT ANNS • PLs • MS • y 

 AEPOSITIO • EIVS • CII • IDS 

 AECEMBRES • FLs • FELICE • V • C 

 CONSVLE 



{^clani; Mommsen, I. N., 1293.) 



Hie requiescit in somno pads CcbUics Juhannis (Johannes), exhor- 

 eiata (exorcista), qui vixit annos plus minus y. Depositio ejus Fill 

 Idus Decembres, Flavius (Flavio) Felice, Viro Clarisshno, Consule. 



"Here rests, in the sleep of peace, Caeliua John, an exorcist, who lived 



years, more or less. His burial took place on the eighth dny 



before the Ides of December, in the Consulship of Flavius Felix, a most 

 distinguished man," i.e. December 6th, 511, a.d. 



