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" household of Caesar." In his Commentary on the Epistle to 

 the Philippians the Bishop gives twelve names found there 

 which are those of persons mentioned in the Pauline Epistles. 

 Though it is impossible to prove the identity, the appearance of 

 such names together, in connection with the place where they 

 would naturally be foimd, creates at least a strong probability. 

 The Bishop quotes one to Tryphena, erected by her daughter 

 and Valerius Eutianus her son-in-law. The lecturer had the 

 great satisfaction immediately after copying the inscription in 

 situ to come across one in the adjoining Columbarium where 

 Tryphosa is mentioned. He believes that it has never been 

 published in England. It is as follows : 



D.M. 



VAEIA TEYPHOSAE 



PATKOXA ET 

 M. EPPIUS CLEMENS 

 COXJUGI BENE 

 MERENTI • EEC 

 VAEIAE PRIMAE 

 YIXIT AXX XXX 



The introduction of Tryphosa's name beside that of her 

 mistress in the inscription to the elder sister, suggests that she 

 was a long trusted servant in the family, perhaps the nurse of 

 the two girls, and had remained with the younger when the 

 elder sister married. It is all the more interesting, as the first 

 two letters DAI. (Dis Manibus) imply that the family by whom 

 Tryphosa was so valued was heathen, or at least obliged to 

 conform to heathen usage. 



Inscriptions bearing two other Pauline names were also 

 copied by the lecturer in the same Columbaria. 



* AMPLIATVS RESTITVTO FEATEt SVO FECIT 

 MEEENTI 



DOMITIAE L FAVSTILLAE PETKOXIO AEISTOXIS L 

 EPAPHEAS 



In contrast with the scanty material of the Columbaria the 

 mass of inscriptions from the Catacombs is so great that in the 

 limits of a single paper only a few prominent features can be 

 referred to. 



* Ampliatus has placed this for his own brother Restitutus who was 

 worthy — Epaphras to Faustilla freed woman of Domitia (and) Petronius 

 freed man of Ariston. Cp. Romans xvi, 8 ; Colossians i, 7 ; iv, 12. 



