Immanesque . . . dentes
Qui secti ferro in tabulas auroque micantes,
Inscripti rutilum cœlato Consule nomen
Per proceres et vulgus eant.
Claud. de Cons. Stilichon. iii. 346.
Montfaucon has represented some of these tablets or dypticks [diptychs]; see Supplement à l'Antiquité expliquée, tom. iii. p. 220.