C 3 1 2 3 4 4 ] 
a careful examination of the whole infcription, as 
it appeared to me in the cad:, I have copied it in 
the draught of the ftone j and indeavoured to exprefs 
the feveral letters in their proper form and propor- 
tional lize, together with the ligatures, dividons of 
the words, and their fituation in each line, in the 
mod: exadt manner I was capable of doing it. And 
upon confidering the whole in this view, I take leave 
to offer the following reading in words at length, as 
what appears to me the mod: probable. 
Locum religiofum , per infolentiam erutum t 
'virtuti et numini Augujii repurgatum 
reddidit C.aius Severius Emeritus , centurio y 
fua pecunia. 
7 . That the words locvm religiosvm mufl 
here dgnify a burying place , cannot, I think, be 
well doubted of ; dnee that is the ufual acceptation 
of them in the Roman laws. Thus Marcian fais : 
Religiofum locum unufquifque J'ua { voluntate facit, du?n 
mortuum inject in locum juum (i). The fame thing 
is faid by Juftinian (2). And in like manner Ulpian 
fais : Locum , in quo (emeus Jepultus efl, religiofum 
ejfe Arifo ait (3). Moreover, as a fevere punifh- 
ment was indidied on thofe, who violated the fepul- 
chers of the dead (4) 5 fo for their further fecurity 
they 
(1) L. 6. § 2. D. de divif. rer. 
(2) Injitt. § 9. eod. 
(2) L. 2. trine. D. de reliriof. et fumtt. fun. 
(4) L. 3. § 7. D, de Jtpul. violet. 
