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Monatsbericht, 1867, p. 762. Notwithstanding the
unusual spectavit, the genuineness of this tessera is main-
tained by Htibner (Ephemeris Epigraphica, iii. p. 163),
and his opinion is confirmed by the evidence of another
tessera recently found at Tarquinii (Corneto), which fur-
nishes a fourth instance of spectavit. He cites Mommsen's
conjectural explanation, that a gladiator, when rude donatus,
may have been allowed to pass from the arena to the cavea
of the circus, that is, from being spectatus to spectavit. U.

TESSEBiE GLADIATOELE MAEKED AS FALSE BY
MOMMSEN, BITSCHL, AND HUBNEB,

No. 1. PAMPHILVS
SERVILI

SP[ectatus] PR[idie] ID[us] QVl[ntiles]
M . SILANVS

The day of the month here given is July 14. Length,
lyV in. Mommsen, p. 201, t; Bifsebl, No. 73, pi. ii. d. T.
No. 2. SECVNDO

SP[ectato] K[alendis] APRplibus]
M[arco] CATIO . P[ublii] Ffilio]
Tl[to] CLAVDIO
The day of the month is April 1. Length, 1{\S in.
Mommsen, p. 201, iv; Bitschl, No. 74, pi. ii. e. T.
No. 3. PETILL1VS
PETIC1

SP[ectatus] K[alendis] FEB[ruariis]
C[aii] TAMVDI

The day of the month is February 1. Length, 1^ in.
Mommsen, p. 201, x. H.
No. 4. ALBINVS

SP[ectatus] K[alendis] IVNTiis]

Tl[to] ANTTIO

QV[into] VIBIO
The day of the month is June 1. Length, lTr^- in.
Mommsen, p. 201, aa; Bitschl, No. 72, pi. ii. c. H.
No. 5. L . ALBINVS

SP[ectatus] K[alendis] APRl[libus]

Tl[tus] SANTIVS

C[aii] ANTON I

After the K in the second line is a vertical stroke,
apparently part of another letter. Length, 1/^- in.
Mommsen (p. 201, v) ; and Bitschl (No. 75). H.