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months, twenty days. He departed on the twelfth day before the Calends of 

 October, in peace," i. e. September 20th, 



1. 1. DDNN. The phrase Domini JVbstri is commonly applied 

 to the Emperors; here it is used regarding private persons, who were 

 Consuls. There are, also, other examples of this of earlier date. 

 Hence Corsini, Zaccaria, and Cancelleri inferred that from the close 

 of the 4th century, Consuls were usually styled Domini. Muratori, 

 Hagenbuch, and De Rossi, more coi-rectly, ascribe this use to inadver- 

 tency and mistake on the part of the stone-cutters. 



(i) OpisthograpJia : — 97. 



(1) HIC-POSITVS-EST 

 VICTORIANVS QVI VIXIT 

 ANN • PLVS MINYS L DIPOSI 

 TOS • IN PACE • DIEM IIII • KAL 

 IVN • DDNN • TL CAESARIO 



ET NONIO • ATTICO • VVCC 



(2) D M 



Q. VERGILIVS, FELIX 

 QVI VIXIT. ANNIS. Ill 

 MES, VI. DIEB. XVII. 



(E coem. S. Hippolyti; D. Rossi, n. 445.) 



(1) Hie positus est Victorianus, qui vixit annos plus minus L' 

 Dipositos (depositus) in pace tZiem(die) IV Kalendas Junias, Dominis 

 Nbstris Tl. (Flavio) C^sario et Nonio Attico, Viris Clarissimis. 



(2) Diis Manihus. Qmntm Vergilius Felix, qui vixit annis (annos) 

 III, mes (menses) VI, diehus (dies) JCfll. 



(1) Here has been placed Victorianus, who lived fifty years, more or less- 

 Buried in peace on the fourth day before the Calends of June, in the Consulship 

 >of our Lords, Flavins Csesarius et M"oniu3 Atticus, most distinguished men," i. e. 

 May 24th, 397 A. d. 



(2) "To the Gods the Manes. Quintus Vergilius Felix, who lived three years 

 six months [and] seventeen days," 



I have given this as an example of the tahulce opistTiographce, that 

 are sometimes found in the Catacombs, scil. tablets on which a Pagan 

 inscription had been cut, but which were subsequently used for a 

 Christian epitaph. 



Nonius Atticus had Ilaximus as his agnomen. It has been inferred 

 from a lamp bearing the monogram, and his name — NoniAtlici VC et 



