08-16-2012, 10:40 PM
Quote:Considering the inscription does not appear in the Epigraphy Databank, which includes most of CIL and AE, I would assume it has been lost, which seems to have been the fate of quite a few inscriptions before (and since) CIL was first published, a century after Eckhel.Do you have a page (or even chapter) reference in Eckhel? I think it more likely that Eckhel miscopied the inscription, but I'd like to have a look at what he says. (I cannot see any reference to speculatores in the second edition of his Vol. VI.)