The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Stone walled in at Durazzo near the "meschea del porto".CIL III 604; cf. Sestieri in Epigraphica IV, 1942, 136 No. 13.Soli aeterno M. Laelius Aquila sacerd(os).Sestieri is of the opinion that the name Aquila corresponds with the greek ἀετός and is a grade of eagle. But this grade is not used (cf. Hieronymus, Ep. CVII ad Laetam). Aquila seems to me a cognomen, cf. Leo in No. 1711 (Deutsch-Altenburg).
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