THE FIRST SIX CENTURIES. 365 



. 1. 4. Mommsen remarks: " Guarini vidit et 4y explicavit XX." 

 1. 5. I have taken the character before II for (J = Q = 0. On the 

 year, see De Rossi, p. 425. 



(i.) To a reader :— 70. 



(See Plate III, 2.) 



{E coem. Callisti et Prxle.dati ; De Rossi, ii. 48.) 



Equitius HeradiuSy qui fuit in sceculmn (sa3Culo) annos XIXy 

 menses VII, dies XX, lectoi- regionis secundce. [Parentes] fece- 

 riin(t) sibi et Jilio suo benemerenti in pace. Deces(B)it VII Irus 

 (Idus) Februai'ias, TJrso et Polemio Consulibus. 



" Equitius Heraclius, who was in this world nineteen years, seven months, 

 twenty days, a Reader of the Second Region. [His parents] made (this) for 

 themselyes, and their well -deserving son, in peace. He departed on the 

 seventh day before the Ides of February, in the Consulship of Ursus and 

 Polemius," i.e. February 7th, 338, a.d. 



. 71. 



HIC REQVIESCIT IN SoMNo 

 PACIS CAELIVS LAVPtENTIVS 

 LECTOR SANCTAE ECCLESIAE 

 AECLANENSIS QVI VIXIT 

 ANNoS PL M* XL VIII DEPoSITIo 

 EIVS DIE VII IDVS MAIAS FLAVIS 

 ASTERIo ET PRAESIDIo VV CC CoN 



(B crypt. JEclanis ; Mommsen, I. N.^ 1299.) 



Hie requiescit in somno pads Ccelius Laurentius, lector sanctcB 

 ecclesice JEclanensis, qui vixit annos plus minus XLVIII. De- 

 positio ejus die VII Idus Maias, Flaviis Asterio et Prcesidio 

 Viris Clarissimis, Consulibus. 



"Here rests, in the sleep of peace, Cffilius Laurentius, a Reader of the 

 holy church of ^clanum, who lived forty-eight years, more or less. His 

 burial (took place) on the seventh day before the Ides of May, in the Con- 

 sulship of Flavins Asterius and Flavius Prfesidius, most distinguished men '' 

 i.e. May 9th, 494, a.d. 



(A;.) To a custodian: — 72. 



loC DECI • CVBICVLARI • RYIus basilicas 

 hie jVIESCIT CARO MEA ^Ovissimo vero die 

 per XPM CREDO RESVSC«V«&^Vwr a mortuis 

 dep ' XV KAL • IVN • ET ITER • Pc • (basili v • c ?) 



{In S. Pauli; De Rossi, d. 1087.> 



