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404 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
Mr. Scarth’s remarks on it are :— 
“This is expanded thus by Mr. Lysons:—‘ Diis Manibus Oaius Calpurnius 
Receptus Sacerdos Dew Sulis, vixit annos septuaginta quinque Calpurnia Trifosa 
“Threpte conjunx faciendum curavit.” Mr. Hunter, in the Bath Institution Cata- 
logue, observes that Receptus may be an appellation of Calpurnius, or it may 
signify that he was an “admitted” priest of the goddess Sul.” 
Of the two interpretations, mentioned by Mr. Hunter, I prefer the 
former, scil. Receptus as a cognomen: if the latter had been 
intended, the order would probably have been Sacerdos receptus. 
The strangeness of the names of his wife might, perhaps, lead 
some to question the correctness of the reading, but on examination 
they will, I think, be found to be free from objection. According to 
my view of them, they afford evidence that the priest married a 
Greek slave, that was born and brought up in his house. TRIFOSA 
and THREPTE suggest that she was Greek, and CALPVRNIA and 
THREPTE that she had been his slave. TRIFOSA, TRYFOSA, 
TRIPHOSA and TRYPHOSA are all Latinized forms of a Greek 
female name, taken, as Sympherusa, Prepusa, Terpusa and many 
others, from the nominative singular feminine of the present participle 
active, i.e. —TRY®QSA or tpvddca, from the verb tpvdaw, the same 
name that is found in St. Paul’s Hpist. ad Rom. xvi. 12. THREPTE, 
or TREPTE as it is otherwise written, is used as a cognomen, but as 
the female mentioned here already has one, scil. Tryphosa—I 
regard the word as standing for perry, the Greek term corresponding 
to the Latin verna. 
It is scarcely necessary to add, that, according to usage, she took 
her first name Calpurnia from the nomen gentilitium of her master. 
It is worthy of observation, that two of the altars, dedicated Dee 
Sult, were erected, probably, by Greek slaves who had been manu- 
mitted, viz: Aufidius Lemnus*, (Lemnius?) and Aufidius Eutuches 
(Eutyches?). These liberti took their names Aufidius from their 
master, Marcus Aufidius Maximus, who is mentioned in each of the 
inscriptions, retaining, according to usage, as cognomina, their servile 
appellations—Lemnus (or Lemnius?), probably from his birth-place 
Lemnos in the Mgean, and Eutyches, from évrvyys, lucky. It is well 
known that some slaves were called after their birth-place e. gr. 
Syrus, Geta, Cappadox, §c. ; and others, from reputed or real char- 
acteristics. Mr. Warner’s supposition (as noticed by Mr. Scarth) that 
* In Mommsen’s Jnscript. Neapol. n. 4383, we have LEMNIVS LIBERTVS. 
