Here lies Urbica, agreeable and ever modest. She lived a speaker of truth. She rests free from care throughout endless time. NEC REOR HVNC LACRIMIS FAS SIT DEFLERE 428 CORPORIS EXVTVS VINCLIS QVI GAVDET IN ASTRIS NEC MALA TERRENI SENTIT CONTAGIA SENSVS. (A. D. 399.) Nor do I think it right to lament with tears him, who, freed from the fetters of the body, rejoices among the stars, nor feels the evil contagion of earthly sense. PAVSABET (_sic_) PRAETIOSA ANNORVM PVLLA (_sic_) VIRGO XII. TANTVM ANCILLA DEI ET XPI. Pretiosa went to her rest, a maiden of only twelve years of age, a handmaid of God and of Christ. (A. D. 401.) NON TAMEN HAEC TRISTES HABITAT POST LIMINA SEDES PROXIMA SED CHRISTO SIDERA CELSA TENET. (A. D. 406.) Nevertheless she occupies not the doleful seats behind the threshold, but inhabits the lofty stars, next to Christ. HIC REQVIESCET (_sic_) IN SOMNO PACIS MALA.... ACCEPTA APVT (_sic_) DEVM. (A. D. 432.) Here rests in the sleep of peace Mala ... Received into the presence of God. REDDITVR HAEC MERITIS QUAE SINE FINE MANET. This (life) without end which remains is bestowed for his pious desert. In the following epitaph of date A. D. 472, the departed is represented as comforting the survivors with the thought of the felicity of the blest: LEVITAE CONIVNX PETRONIA FORMA PVDORIS HIS MEA DEPONENS SEDIBVS OSSA LOCO PARCITE VOS LACRIMIS DVLCES CVM CONIVGE NATAE VIVENTEMQVE DEO CREDITE FLERE NEFAS. I, Petronia, the wife of a deacon, the type of modesty, lay down my bones in this resting place. Refrain from tears, my sweet daughters and husband, and believe that it is forbidden to weep for one who lives in God. The early Christians confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims in the earth, and that they desired a better country, even a heavenly. They felt that, in the language of Cyprian, the soul’s true Fatherland is on high. This sentiment is expressed as follows, in an epitaph of date A. D. 493, MIGRAVIT DE HOC SAECVLO--“He migrated from this 429 world.” Similar is the idea in the following: FELIX VITA FVIT FELIX ET TRANSITVS IPSE--“Happy was the life, and happy also the death,” literally, “the transit;” HIC REQIESCIT .. QVAE A DEO INTER EXORDIA VIVENDI DE HAC LVCE SVBLATA EST VT IN MELIORE LVMINE VIVERE MERERETVR--“Here rests ... who was snatched away by God in the very beginning of life from the light of earth, that she might be worthy to live in the more glorious light (of heaven).” The following is a striking protest against the heathen notions of the future state.