This symbol is also represented on the stelæ at Hadrumetum and Lilybæum; the cippi are broader at the base than at the summit, and the middle one is surmounted by the solar disk and the reversed crescent.
The remaining two cippi record the burning of the bodies of a son of Drusus, and of one of the Flavian family.
The inscription cut upon the pedestal of the urn of Agrippina, the mother of Caligula, may still be seen in the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Capitol, and also the cippi recording the burials of some of the imperial family.
The cippi may still be seen in the Vatican Museum.
Their cippi were found broken into fragments, their names half erased, and their ashes scattered to the four winds.
The other cippi found in the ustrinum mention four other children of Germanicus, among them Caius Cæsar, the lovely child who was so much beloved by Augustus, and so deeply regretted by him.
Of boundary-stones, or cippi terminales, some very ancient specimens have been preserved.
Then follow the cippi Gracchani, by which Gaius Gracchus and his two colleagues, as tres viri agris iudicandis adsignandis, measured the ager Campanus, for its division among the plebs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cippi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
