Si deus si dea

Archaic Roman inscriptions such as this may have been written to protect the identity of the god if Rome were captured by an enemy.

[citation needed] The classical scholar Edward Courtney claimed it was "intended to cover all bases as an acknowledgement of the limitations of human knowledge about divine powers".

which can be transliterated into the modern form as:[4] Sei deo sei deivae sac(rum) C(aius) Sextius C(ai) f(ilius) Calvinus pr(aetor) de senati sententia restituit and translated as:[5] Whether sacred to god or to goddess, Gaius Sextius Calvinus, son of Gaius, praetor, on a vote of the senate, restored this.

Column D, the longest inscription, reads: Fertor Resius rex Aequeicolus is preimus ius fetiale paravit inde p(opulus) R(omanus) discipleinam excepit.

Fertor Resius, Aequian king, he first introduced the ius fetiale, from him the Roman people learned the discipline [of making treaties].