Note 99 — Chapter III · WHAT DIOGENES COULD NOT TELL ABOUT THE CATACOMBS.

“(The picture) of St. Cornelius Pope, of St. Cyprian.” On the other side, on a narrow wall projecting at a right angle, are two more similar portraits; but only one name can be deciphered, that of St. Sixtus, or, as he is there and elsewhere called, Sustus. On the paintings of the principal saints may still be read, scratched in the mortar, in characters of the seventh century, the names of visitors to the tomb. Those of two priests are thus—

✠LEO P̅R̅B̅ I ANNIS P̅R̅B̅.

It may be interesting to add the entry in the Roman calendar.

“xviii. Kal. Oct. Cypriani Africæ: Romæ celebratur in Callisti.” “Sept. 14. (The deposition) of Cyprian in Africa: at Rome it is kept in (the cemetery) of Callistus.”