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CnRISTIAN EPITAPHS OP 



(/i;) Sarcophagus : — 85. 



DEP FL-IVLIVS ZACONVS ET 



IVL AVRELIA MERIA CON 



ZACO IVX EIVS HOC SARCOFA 



NIS GVM SIBI VIBI- POSVERVNT 



DIE iril SI QVIS POST NOSTRAM PAY 



NOVEM SATI0NE3I HOC SARCOFA 



BRES GVM APERIRE VOLVERIT IN 



DATIA FERAT ECCLESIAE SALON • AR 



NO ET GENTI LIBRAS QVINQVAGINTA 

 CEREA 

 LE COSS 



{Salonis ; Muratori, 381, 2.) 

 Flavins Julius Zaconus (Diaconus) ct Aurelia Ileria conjux ejus 

 hoc (hunc) sarcofajum (sarcophagum) sibi vibl (vivi) posiierunt. Si 

 qxiis post nostram piausationem hoc (hunc) sarcophagum aperire voluerit 

 inferat eccksiee Salonitan£e argenti lihras quinquaginta. 



Dcpositus Julius Zaconis (Diaconus) die IV [Kalendas] Novembres, 

 Datiano et Cereale Consulibus. 



" Flavins Jiiliug, a deacon, and Aurelia Meria his wife, whilst living, erected 

 this sarcophagus for themselves. If any one after our decease shall take on 

 himself to open this sarcophagus, let him pay as the penalty fifty pounds of 

 silver to the church at Salonte." 



" Julius, the deacon, was buried on the fourth day before the Calends of 

 November, in the Consulship of Datianus and Cerealis." i. e. October 29th, 

 358 A. D. 



1. 1, Zaconns. See note on epitaph C5. Muratori observes : — 



"Zaconus et Zaconis est -pvo Diaconus ^t Biaconis, uti Zabuhts -p't^o Diabohis, 

 Zeta pro Diceia." 



I have regarded Zaconis as given in mistake for Zaconus, and think 

 that the correctness of this view is confirmed by the name '' Julius." 



1. 7. laferat, &c. The naming of a penalty for violation of the grave 

 is of very common occurrence in Pagan epitaphs, both Greek and Latin. 



There is scarcely one of the ^designations of the place of burial used 

 in Christian epitaphs, so far as I recollect, that is peculiar to them. 

 Locus, iumuhis, ' memoria, cuhiculum, sepidchrum, sarcoj^hagus, &g., 



* I have not observed quadrisonms in any Pagan epitaph. 



