[78] Better known as Caracalla’s.
[79] The person who had charge of the bathers’ clothes, from capsa, a chest.
[80] “Cucumio and Victoria made (the tomb) for themselves while living. Capsarius of the Antonine” (baths). Found in the cemetery of Callistus, first published by F. Marchi, who attributes it, erroneously, to the cemetery of Prætextatus.
[81] “Marcus Antonius Restitutus made this subterranean for himself and his family, that trust in the Lord.” Lately found in the cemetery of SS. Nereus and Achilleus. It is singular that in the inscription of the martyr Restitutus, given in the last chapter, as in this, a syllable should be omitted in the name, one easily slurred in pronouncing it.
[82] Sixty was the full age, but admission was given sometimes at forty.
[83] Now St. Sebastian’s. The older Porta Capena was nearly a mile within the present.
[84] As Ad Nymphas, Ad Ursum pileatum, Inter duas lauros, Ad Sextum Philippi, &c.
[85] The cemetery at St. Cæcilia’s tomb.
[86] Formed apparently of a Greek preposition and a Latin verb.
[87] That is, the red volcanic sand called puzzolana, so much prized for making Roman cement.