THE FIRST SIX CENTURIES. 7 



The house may have been used as indicative of the last dwelling-place, 

 and the mummy certainly represents Lazarus and is symbolical of the 

 sresurrection. De Kossi refers to the discussion of these symbols by 

 Mamachi, Orig. ch. iii., Munter, Sinnhilder, p. 57, Didron, Hist, de 

 Dieu, p. 339, E-aoul Rochette, Mem. de VAcad. des inscr. xiii. 244, 

 and by himself in Spicil. Solesm. iii. p. 549. Aringhi, ii. p. 357, 

 figures the stone and illustrates the meaning as usual, by citations of 

 all kinds from the authors of the Old and of the New Testament, 

 from Origen, Irenseus, Jerome, Augustine, Chrysostom, and G-regory. 

 And yet in this, as in other collections of quotations in Aringhi'swork, 

 the result, so far as definiteness of explanation is concerned, is very 

 unsatisfactory. 



{/) Locus quadrisomus : — 81. 



FL ■ TATIANO ET QVINTO 

 AYR • SVMMACOVDRIS 

 CI RISSIMIS EGOZITA 

 LOCVM QVADRIC 

 SOMV IN BSILIC 

 ALVA EMI 



{^Ehasilica supra coem. DomitillcB ; De Kossi, n. 395.) 



Fl. Tatianoet Quinto Aur. Summaco (Symmsiohoy^Viris Clarissimis., 

 ego Zita locum quadrisomum in basilica salva emi. 



" In the Consulslaip of Flavius Tatianus and Quintus Aurelius Symmacbus, 

 most distinguished men {i. e. 391 a. d.) I, Zita, whilst alive, bought a place for 

 four bodies in the Basilica." 



((7) 3Iv/][i£~iov: — 82. 



'ExTLffffyj TO iJ.v7jp.sTov Tou fiaxapioo Sreydvou and ^A-Kaiieiaq [?] Iv fxrjv\ 

 ^A-KeXXoJitp IvduTicJvoq Z tou 'irouq udrj. 



[8c7imurrin in Syria; Kirchhoff, n. 9146.) 



" This monument of the blessed Stephen from Apamea was erected in the 

 month Apellseus, in the 7th Indiction, in the year 438," of the epoch of the 

 Sostreni (which counts from 105 a. D.)=December 544, a. d. 



I have given only the expansion, as I am unable to present a copy 

 of the original without type cut for tbe purpose. Other terms applied 

 to the tomb are /iv^/7.a, zditoq, 0-r]y.rj.^ (Ta)fj.aTo6ijx7j, -^poelov, TtapaffzaTixov^ 

 iivrjua^ ^ajiOGopiov, rup-fioq, xocjxT^ZTJpcoVj olxog alcuvcog. 



