CVM QVA VIXIT ANNIS XXVII

SINE VLLA QVERELA

To his incomparable wife, with whom he had lived twenty-seven years without having had a single squabble.

‘This couple,’ says Mr. Akerman, ‘must for ever throw into the shade all the candidates for the Dunmow flitch.’

At Chesterholm is a slab which, though suffering from exposure to the weather, is still distinct:—

DIIS MANIBVS

CORN[ELIVS] VICTOR S. C. (Sibi Constitvit)

MIL[ES] ANN[OS] XXVI CIV[IS]

PANN[ONIAE] FIL[IVS] SATVRNI-