When a weary brick-maker scrawls SATIS with his finger on a tile, or some prouder spirit writes CLEMENTINVS FECIT TVBVL( _um_) (Clementinus made this box-tile), when a bit of Samian is marked FVR--presumably as a warning from the servants of one house to those of the next--or a rude brick shows the word PVELLAM--probably part of an amatory sentence otherwise lost--or another brick gives a Roman date, the 'sixth day before the Calends of October', we may be sure that the lower classes of Calleva used Latin alike at their work and in their more frivolous moments (Figs.

2, 3, 4).

When we find a tile scratched over with cursive lettering--possibly part of a writing lesson--which ends with a tag from the _Aeneid_, we recognize that not even Vergil was out of place here.[2] The Silchester examples are so numerous and remarkable that they admit of no other interpretation.[3] [Footnote 1: For these and for the following _graffiti_ see my account in the _Victoria History of Hampshire_, i.

275, 282-4.

For the 'Clementinus' tile (discovered since) see _Archaeologia_, lviii.