THE FIRST SIX CENTURIES. 



The solidiis was originally called the aureus. It had different values 

 at different periods. From the time of Constantine there were 72 

 (OB) coined to the pound of gold. The semissis and tremissis were 

 coins respectively i and i of the solidus. Northcoto, " Roman Cata- 

 combs," p. 28, notices this inscription, and remarks, " A solidus and a 

 half the price paid for a single [?] grave was a sum equivalent to about 

 eighteen shillings [sterling] of our own coin." 



(f) Locus *donatus : — 78. 



HIC REQVIESCUT IN PACE AMEN 



. . . SQVI FECIT • CVM OXVRE ANN . . . dep 

 in LOGVM QVEM DONAVIT DOMINVS PAPA 

 HOPwMISDA POSSEDATVR LOCS EVM NE QVIS 

 MREMOBAT DEFVNCTVS EST NON NOVEMBRIS 

 FL- SYMMACO ET VOETIO VV CC 



{In S. Martini in montihus ; De Rossi, n. 980.) 



Mic requiescit in pace Amen s, qui fecit cum oxurc. 



(uxore) annos — [Depositus] m locum (loco) quern donavh 



Dominus Papa Eotmisda. PosRedaiur (possideatur) locus; etim ne 

 quis imquam remohat (removeat). De/unctus est, Nonas (Nonis) 

 Novembris (Novembres, Novembribus), Flavio Symmaco (Symmaeho) 

 ei Voetio (Boctio), Viris Clarissimis. 



" Here rests in peace Amen s who passed with his wife 



years. Buried in the place which the Lord Bishop Horniisda gave (to him). 

 Let the place be held in possession ; let no one ever remove it (or him). He 

 died on the Nones of November, in the Consulship of Flavius Symmachus and 

 Boetius, most distinguished men," t. e. November 5th, 522 a. d. 



((/) Locus hisomus : — 79. 



PETRONIVS IN PACE XVII- KALENf7as 



NIS QVI V_rXIT_ANNVS LXVI • CONSVLATy ohjhrio et 

 PROBING YV GC • HIC REQVIESCIT IN Pace . . . qux 

 SEBIBA FECIT BISOMVS VACAT. 



Petronhis in pace, XVII Calendas nis qui vixit annu$ 



(annos) LXVI, Conmlatu Olyhrio (Olybrii) et Prohino (Probini) 

 Viris Clarissimis (Virorum Clarissimorum). Hie requiescit in pace 

 qua; se hiha (se \\\'d) fecit. Bisomus vacat. 



* For locus concessus see Epitaph 67. 



