[4] Kirchmann de Funer. Rom. c. 20, 21. Dodwell, 1, 428. [5] Sylv. 2, 2, 13. [6] C. Nep. Att. 22. Vict. Epit. 60. [7] H. E. Smith, Reliquiæ Isurianæ. [8] Morcelli de Stylo Inscr. Lat. p. 363. Orelli, Inscr. 3998, 9. The Romans had also their Burial Clubs. See the regulations of one, Henzen, 6086. [9] Plin. N. H. 1241. Periti rerum asseverant non ferre Arabiam tantum annuo foetu, quantum Nero novissimo Poppææ suæ die concremaverit. Juv. Sat. 4, 108. "Matutino sudans Crispinus amomo, Quantum vix redolent duo funera." [10] Fabretti, p. 230. [11] Archæologia, vol. 26, p. 270. [12] Gruter, p. 898. Orelli, 6237. [13] Anthol. 4, 271. [14] Mommsen, Inscr. Neap. 4135. [15] Henzen, Suppl. ad Orell. 6976, 7. [16] Fabretti, p. 612. [17] Orelli, 4859. [18] Reines, p. 1000. [19] The various and unsatisfactory conjectures of the learned respecting this phrase may be seen in Facciolati s. v. _Ascia._ It occurs especially on monuments in Lyons and Southern Gaul. [20] Reines, p. 763. [21] Gruter, pp. 844, 862. Augustus forbade his daughter Julia to be interred in his monument.--Sueton. Octavianus, c. 101. [22] Orelli, 4397. Fabretti p. 91. [23] Gruter, p. 762, 5. [24] Orelli, 4390. [25] Orelli, 4360. [26] Morcelli, de Stilo Inscr. p. 103. [27] Meyer, Anthol. Lat. 1178. Singular is the inscription, "Semiramiæ Licinianæ, quam loco filiæ diligo, ob merita ejus _vivus vivæ feci_."--Orelli, 4676. [28] Gruter, p. 607, 1. [29] Reines, p. 388, 53. We find (Gruter, p. 399, 1) ten jugera of land bequeathed "tutelæ nomine." [30] Orelli, 4070. [31] Fabretti, p. 232. [32] Medicus jumentarius. Orelli, 4229, 4231. Valeria Verecunda is called on her monument "Iatromeia (physician-midwife) regionis suæ prima."--Grut. p. 1110. [33] Gruter, p. 1148, Petron. Arb. p. 388. I have printed these lines as hexameter and pentameter, for which they appear to have been intended, though the author was "ill at these numbers." Faults of prosody are very common in the poetical inscriptions, and prose and verse are sometimes singularly intermixed. [34] Fabretti, p. 715. [35] Anthol. Lat. 4, 155. [36] Meyer Anthol. 1438. [37] Orelli, 2990. [38] Anthol. 4, 101. [39] From a monument recently discovered at Lambæsa, in Northern Africa. The ellipsis of _magis_ before _quam_ is found in Latin authors, especially Tacitus.--See Germ. 7. Cedere loco consilii quam formidinis arbitrantur. A similar complaint of death by magic occurs on the grave of a boy of four years old at Verona.--Maffei, Mus. Veron. 170. [40] Mommsen, Inscr. Neap. 4870. [41] Gruter, p. 831, 6. [42] Orelli, 4600. [43] Gruter, p. 340. [44] Nat. Hist. 29, 1. [45] Orelli, 4944. [46] See Priscian, vi. 1, who quotes from old Latin authors, monetas for monetæ; escas for escæ; and vias for viæ. [47] Orelli, 2778. He observes, "_jacit_ est etiam in aliis Britannicis." [48] Orelli, 4544. Dua obrendaria. [49] Prisc. vi. 1. [50] Anthol. Meyer, 1424. [51] Gruter, p. 572. [52] Fabretti, pp. 113, 575.