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O. A. Moore, Esq., read some observations “ On the Aneient 
Chinese Sepulchral Remains,” presented hy C. M. Jessop, Esq. (A 
full account of these interesting Remains, from the pen of Mr. Jessop 
himself, has been published in the Gentleman's Magazine, May, 1861, 
p. 483.) 
June 4. — The Rev. J. Kenrick gave an account of some Roman 
antiquities lately discovered at the Mount, and now in the possession 
of Mr. Rush. The most remarkable of them is a stone tablet, part 
of a monument raised by Q,. Corellius Fortis to his daughter Corellia 
Optata, who died at the age of thirteen. MTien perfect it had at the 
top a sculptured figure, of which only the feet remain. The inscrip¬ 
tion reads as follows. 
[D] M. 
CORELLIA OPTATA ANN. XIII. 
SECRETI MANES QUI REGNA ACHERUSIA DITIS 
INCOLITIS QUOS PARVA PETUNT POST LUMINA VITiE 
EXIGUUS CINIS ET SIMULACRUM CORPORIS UMBRA 
INSONTIS GNATAl GENITOR SPE CAPTUS INIQUA 
SUPREMUM HUNC NATiE MISERANDUS DEFLEO FINEM. 
Q. CORE. FORTIS PATER F. C. 
Inscriptions in verse are very rare in Britain, especially of the 
sepulchral kind. The name Corellius appears in Gniter, and Corellius 
Pansa was Consul a. d. 122. The daughter of the house usually bore 
the feminine form of the name of the gens, the second of the three 
names which belonged to a genuine Roman. The daughter of Q. 
Corellius Fortis was Corellia, as the daughter of P. Cornelius Scipio 
was Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi. 
The inscription, though possessed of no high poetical merit, is 
correct in grammar and rhythm. The author appears to have been a 
reader of the Latin poets, as there are traces of the imitation of their 
phraseology. “ Acherusia templa ” is borrowed from Lucretius. 
“ Lumina vitae ” is a Yirgilian phrase for life. “ Spe captus iniqua ” 
is a variation on Virgil’s “ spe captus inani.” ^n. XI., 49. 
Among the other remains from the same spot are a feeding bottle^ 
and a glass vase, which when found was half filled with bones, 
probably those of Corellia Optata. Similar glass vessels have been 
found elsewhere, filled with burnt bones.From the Abbe Cochet’s 
* See Descriptive Catalogue of Antiquities, p. 64. 
t See Arch. Journal, Vol. yi. p, 110. Archseologia, vii. 96. 
