The Canadian journal of science, literature and history . , Kalendis Novenibrihus pos (post) Constdaium Gratiani ter et Equitiiy, Ursus maritus sibi et innocenti compari fecit. Cesquet (quiescit) in pace. To Petronia, a worthy wife, who lived twenty-one years, and passed withher mate ten months, five days. [Buried] on the Calends of November, in theyear after the Consulship of Gratianus, for the third time, and Equitius {i. 1st, 375 a. d.) Ursus, her husband, made (this) for himself and his-blameless mate. She rests in peace. I have selected this epitaph chiefly because the stone pr
The Canadian journal of science, literature and history . , Kalendis Novenibrihus pos (post) Constdaium Gratiani ter et Equitiiy, Ursus maritus sibi et innocenti compari fecit. Cesquet (quiescit) in pace. To Petronia, a worthy wife, who lived twenty-one years, and passed withher mate ten months, five days. [Buried] on the Calends of November, in theyear after the Consulship of Gratianus, for the third time, and Equitius {i. 1st, 375 a. d.) Ursus, her husband, made (this) for himself and his-blameless mate. She rests in peace. I have selected this epitaph chiefly because the stone presents of the attitude of a person praying. This position was atone time so general, that those, who were suffering penance, were notpermitted to stand up in the church during prayer. The outstretched arms and uplifted hands were common to bothJews and Pagans. At one time this figure in the attitude of prayerwas regarded as an emblem of martyrdom; and the crown and the;. SO) (oa olsLC[^-Haa j^^itayhiM-
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