AEDILIS . FAMILIA . GLADIATORIA . PUGNABIT POMPEIS . PR . K . JUNIAS . VENATIO ET VELA ERUNT. or, N . FESTI AMPLIATI FAMILIA GLADIATORIA . PUGNA ITERUM PUGNA . XVI . K . JVN . VENAT . VELA.[11] Such inscriptions occur in various parts of Pompeii, sometimes written on smooth surfaces between pilasters (denominated _albua_), at other times painted on the walls. Places of great resort were selected for preference, and thus it is that numerous advertisements are found under the portico of the baths at Pompeii, where persons waited for admission, and where notices of shows, exhibitions, or sales would be sure to attract the attention of the weary lounger. Baths we find advertised in the following terms,-- THERMAE M . CRASSI FRUGII AQUA . MARINA . ET . BALN. AQUA . DULCI . JANUARIUS . L. which of course means “warm, sea, and fresh water baths.” As provincials add to their notices “as in London,” or “à la mode de Paris,” so Pompeians and others not unfrequently proclaimed that they followed the customs of Rome at their several establishments. Thus the keeper of a bathing-house near Bologna acquainted the public that-- IN . PRAEDIS C . LEGIANNI VERI BALNEUM . MORE . URBICO . LAVAT. OMNIA COMMODA . PRAESTANTUR. At his establishments there were baths according to the fashion of “the town,” besides “every convenience.” And a similar inscription occurred by the Via Nomentana, eight miles from Rome-- IN . PRAEDIS . AURE LIAE . FAUSTINIANAE BALINEUS . LAVAT . MO RE . URBICO . ET OMNIS. HUMANITAS . PRAESTA TUR. [Illustration: _WALL INSCRIPTIONS IN POMPEII.--Antigonus, the hero of 2112 victories. Superbus, a comparatively unknown man. Casuntius, the master of the latter, is supposed to be in the act of advising him to yield to the invincible retiarius. The other figure represents Aniketos Achilles, a great Samnite gladiator, who merited the title of invincible._] Those who had premises to let or sell affixed a short notice to the house itself, and more detailed bills were posted at the “advertising stations.” Thus in Plautus’s “Trinummus,” Act v., the indignant Callicles says to his spendthrift son, “You have dared to put up in my absence, and unknown to me, that this house is to be sold”--(“Ædes venales hasce inscribit literis”). Sometimes, also, the inscription, “Illico ædes venales” (“here is a house for sale”) appears to have been painted on the door, or on the _album_. An auctioneer would describe a house as “Villa bona beneque edificata” (a good and well-built house), and full details of the premises were given in the larger placards painted on walls. In the street of the Fullers in Pompeii occurs the following inscription, painted in red, over another which had been painted in black and whitewashed over,--