[5] A consul suffectus was one elected as a substitute in case of the death or retirement of one of the regular consuls.
[6] Lampridius, in Sev. Alex., c. 43.
[7] In chapter v., p. 122, of Ancient Rome, I have attributed these graffiti to the second half of the first century; but after a careful examination of the structure of the wall, on the plaster of which they are scratched, I am convinced that they must have been written towards the end of the second century.
[8] Orelli, 4024, Digest L., iv. 18, 7.
[9] See Ulpian: De officio Procons., i. 3.
[10] Lampridius, Heliog., 3.
[11] See Greppo: Mémoire sur les laraires de l'empereur Alexandre Sevère.
[12] The name of the villa was Cassiacum; its memory has lasted to the present age. See the memoir of Luigi Biraghi, S. Agostino a Cassago di Brianza. Milano, 1854.
[13] See Bullettino di archeologia cristiana, 1865, p. 50.
[14] It contains the words PETRO LILLVTI PAVLO. They are surely genuine and ancient. I examined them in company with Mommsen, Jordan, and de Rossi, and they attributed them to the beginning of the third century of our era. The best suggestion regarding their origin is that they belong to a person, probably Christian, who used the name Petrus as gentilitium, and Paulus as cognomen, and who was the son of Lillutus, however barbaric this last name may sound.