8 CHRISTIAN EPITAPirS OF 



(A) In Basilica : — 83. 



Vict OR IN PACE FILIVS EPISCOPI VICXORIS 

 Civit ATIS VCRESIVM VIXIT ANNIS XXXqiTI 

 3iensihus VII DECES D XI KAL • NOVEBR • CONSVLATV 

 d. n. honor IVI AVG- DEPOSITVS IN BASILICA SANCTO 

 rimi NASARI ET NABORIS SECVNDV ARCT IVXTA 

 /ENESTRA 



(In vico quodam ad S. Marias supra Mhicrvam ; De Rossi, n. 534.) 



Victor inpace,filius Episcopi Vicxoris (Victoris) civitattsUcresium, 

 Vixit annis XXXIX mensihus VIL Decessit die XI Kalendas Novem- 

 bres, Considattt Domini A^stri Eonorii sextum A^igmti. Bepositus in 

 Masilica Sanctorimi Nasarii et Nahoris secundo arcu j'uxia fenestrani. 



" Victor, in peace, son of Bishop Victor of the City of the Ucrenses. He 

 lived 39 years 7 months. He departed on the 11th day before the Calends of 

 November, in the Consulship of our Lord Ilonorius, for the sixth tinie, Augustus 

 {i. e. October 22nd, 404 a. d.) Bm-ied in the Basilica of Saints Nasavius and 

 Nabor, in the second arch near the window." 



The Italics ia the text are De Rossi's restorations. I have followed 

 him in substituting Q for C in the 2d line, and in reading I for T, 

 before VI, in the 4th line. 



1. 1. Episcopi Vicxoris (Victoris). This is the usual order — not 

 Victoris Episcopi Civitatis Ucresium : thus also Fa2^a Mormisda, 

 Papa loanne. See De Rossi, n. 989. 



In an inscription, found at Narbonne, (Mai, p. &3, Gruter, 1059, V} 

 of the year 445 a. d. — Valentiniano Aug. vi. — we have — 



RVSTICVS • EPVS • EPI • BONOSI • FILIVS • EPI • ARATORIS- 

 _ _ [DE • SORORE- 



NEPVS • EPi • VENERI • SOCi • IN • MONASTERIO COMPRB 



[ECCLE • MASSIUEN, &c. 



Eusiicus episcopm, episcopi Bonosi Jilius, episcopi Aratoris de 

 $orore nepos, episcopi Venerii socius in Monasterio, comprcshyter 

 ecclesiss Massiliensis. 



1. 2. Ucresium. De Rossi regards this as used for Vrcensium or 

 Urgensium. There was a town called Vrgi, in Numidia, and another 

 called Vrci in proconsular Africa. Each of these had its own Bishop 

 in the fourth or fifth century. 



Nasarius (or Nazarius) and Nabor, soldiers, are said to huve beeR 

 beheaded at Rome, in the persecution of Dioeletian and Maximian. 



