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PLATE XVI.
BUST OF A YOUNG MAN, UNKNOWN.
" A bust, which has been supposed to be that of Marcellus,
son of Octavia, the sister of the emperor Augustus. It repre-
sents a youth of about eighteen years of age, with short, curly hair,
and clad in the toga. As there are no coins of Marcellus known,
and no statue or bust has been discovered with his name, the ap-
propriation of the bust to him must be a matter of mere con-
jecture. But to whomsoever it belongs, it was erected to the
honour and memory of that person by the Decemviri, as is evident
from the inscription which is engraved round the plinth:
DECEMVIRI . STLITIBVS . IVDICANDIS.
These officers, who, as their title imports, were appointed to give
judgement in causes, are mentioned by Cicero.1 Stlitibics2 here
stands for Utibus, that being the ancient orthography of the word.
This bust was discovered in an excavation made near Rome in the
year 1776." 3
The Decemviri stlitibus judicandis were instituted according to
4 Pomponius in the latter part of the 5th century, A. U. C, to pre-
side in the Court of the Centumvirs, though Walter, Geschichte des
Romischen Rechts, iv. c. 1. p. 721, thinks that this appointment
may have been only a revival of an old plebeian magistracy. Their
1 Cic. Orator, c. 46.
2 Compare the analogous instances of stlata and stlocum mentioned by Festus,
stlata. 3 Combe's MS. notes.
4 Pomponius, fragm. ii., 29. apud Pandect. Justin. Lib. i. Tit. 2. 21.
PLATE XVI.
BUST OF A YOUNG MAN, UNKNOWN.
" A bust, which has been supposed to be that of Marcellus,
son of Octavia, the sister of the emperor Augustus. It repre-
sents a youth of about eighteen years of age, with short, curly hair,
and clad in the toga. As there are no coins of Marcellus known,
and no statue or bust has been discovered with his name, the ap-
propriation of the bust to him must be a matter of mere con-
jecture. But to whomsoever it belongs, it was erected to the
honour and memory of that person by the Decemviri, as is evident
from the inscription which is engraved round the plinth:
DECEMVIRI . STLITIBVS . IVDICANDIS.
These officers, who, as their title imports, were appointed to give
judgement in causes, are mentioned by Cicero.1 Stlitibics2 here
stands for Utibus, that being the ancient orthography of the word.
This bust was discovered in an excavation made near Rome in the
year 1776." 3
The Decemviri stlitibus judicandis were instituted according to
4 Pomponius in the latter part of the 5th century, A. U. C, to pre-
side in the Court of the Centumvirs, though Walter, Geschichte des
Romischen Rechts, iv. c. 1. p. 721, thinks that this appointment
may have been only a revival of an old plebeian magistracy. Their
1 Cic. Orator, c. 46.
2 Compare the analogous instances of stlata and stlocum mentioned by Festus,
stlata. 3 Combe's MS. notes.
4 Pomponius, fragm. ii., 29. apud Pandect. Justin. Lib. i. Tit. 2. 21.