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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2009
Latin inscriptions are among the most revealing and valuable remains from ancient Rome and its Empire. They have been found in the hundreds of thousands—and are still being found—in all parts of the Empire, ranging in date from early times to the fall of the Western Empire and beyond. The earliest are few and of unknown date—perhaps of the regal period, perhaps of the early Republic—and the latest are of yesterday, such as the ones put up to mark the new excavations and discoveries under St. Peter's in Rome. The stories they have to tell are infinite in variety, and the information they give as varied in value. From the city of Rome alone we have the names of more than 50,000 persons recorded in inscriptions, not counting the many more whose cognomina only are given.
page 75 note 1 To his wife, Joyce Gordon, and to his friend D. A. Amyx, the author is indebted for many suggestions and corrections.
page 78 note 1 Abbreviations in the text are filled out by means of parentheses, in the usual manner.
page 79 note 1 These dimensions are of the squeeze and probably therefore slightly smaller than reality.
page 80 note 1 For these dimensions and for assistance in checking the text the author is indebted to Mr. F. W. Adams, a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
page 84 note 1 The description of the writing of this and the following texts is due mostly to Joyce Gordon.
page 86 note 1 These are absent from the stone, but conjectured as necessary.
page 86 note 2 Square brackets indicate losses caused by the stone's being broken.
page 86 note 3 The comments are limited to matters not sufficiently explained in Lewis and Short.