Marcia Aurelia, f.
Maria, praenomen of the honoree, in the dative case, the indirect object of censuerunt.

Aurelia Ceionia, f.
Aurelia Ceionia, imperial family nomina of the honoree, in the dative case, the indirect object of censuerunt.

Demetrias, -iadis, f.
Demetrias, the feminine form of the Greek name Demetrius; cognomen of the honoree, it is in the dative case, the indirect object of censuerunt. It is the name of a city in Thessaly colonized in the 3rd century BC by Demetrius Poliorcetes.

stolatus, -a, -um
dressed in/wearing a stola, a floor-length sleeveless over-tunic worn by married noblewomen outdoors under the palla. In apposition with her name, this honorary title can be found on women's inscriptions of the Severan period, recognizing them for their traditional matronal virtue.

ob preposition with the accusative:
on account of, in return for, on the occasion of.

dedicatio, -tionis, f.
dedication, ceremonial opening of a public building; devotion. The word appears again below, incorrectly spelled dedicationIM.

thermae, -arum, f. pl.
warm baths.

tempus, -oris, m.
time; partitive genitive after multum.

pristinus, -a, -um
former, earlier.

facies, -ei , f.
appearance.

sumptus, -us, m.
expense, cost, charge. Euhodus' inscription reads sua pecunia.

restauro (1)
restore, refurbish; notice the plural form, damaged in Euhodus' inscription, but here must refer to both benefactors.

ponendam:
supply esse; a second periphrastic verb form implying necessity.

dedicatio, -tionis, f.
ceremonial opening of a public building; dedication, devotion. Note the dual meaning of the word here. Dedicationem is the correct spelling for the accusative singular.

dedit: The subject is Marcia, who funded the feast celebrating the erection of her honorary statue and donated the listed amounts of money to the townspeople.

decuriones, -um, m. pl.
councilors in municipalities; these varied in number from town to town; in Anagnia there were fifteen.

X: an abbreviation for the number ten, which indicated the denarius; X was stamped on the coin because the silver denarius was worth 10 asses (the as was a bronze coin of little value).

sevir, seviri, m. (misspelled sivir)
member of a board or college consisting of six men. The seviri were six municipal officers who were appointed annually in every Roman town to supervise the cult of Rome and Augustus.

singuli, -ae, -a
one each, individual.

epulum, -i, n.
public banquet.

sufficio, -ficere, -feci, -fectum + dative
be sufficient to, suffice, satisfy.

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