====== Najstariji spomenici: Columna rostrata C. Duillii ======
Liv. periocha 17 (a. 260, Mylae):

<blockquote>C. Duillius consul adversus classem Poenorum prospere pugnavit primusque omnium Romanorum ducum navalis victoriae duxit triumphum. ob quam causam ei perpetuus quoque honos habitus est, ut revertenti a cena tibicine canente funale praeferretur.</blockquote>

===== CIL I(2) 25; E 147. =====


{{http://www.livius.org/a/italy/rome/rostra/rome_forum_romanum_columna_rostrata_inscr_cm.JPG|columna rostrata}}

[Consol Secest]ano[s socios p.r. Cartaciniensiom] \\
[opsidione]d exemet lecione[sque Cartacinensis omnis] \\
[ma]ximosque macistratos l[uci palam post dies] \\
[n]ovem castreis exfociont; Mace[lamque opidom] \\
[p]ucnandod cepet. Enque eodem mac[istratud bene] \\
[r]em navebos marid consol primos c[eset copiasque] \\
[c]lasesque navales primos ornavet pa[ravetque] \\
[c]umque eis navebos claseis Poenicas omn[is item ma-] \\
[x]umas copias Cartaciensis praesente[d Hanibaled] \\
dictatored olorem inaltod marid pucn[ad vicet], \\
vique naveis cepet cum socieis septer[esmom I quin-] \\
[queresm]osque triresmosque naveis X[XX merset XIII]. \\
[Aur]om captom numei MMDCC[....] \\
[Arcen]tom captom praeda numei � [....] \\
[Omne] captom aes �������� [����] \\
[���] ���������� [�������] \\
[triumpod]que navaled praedad poplom [donavet] \\
[multosque] Cartacinie[nsis incenuos d[uxit ante] \\
[curum ....................]