carefully tabulated, so as to note where there is correspondence and 

 where variance. Should we do this, we may doubtless get a toler- 

 ably correct sequence of places, which would prove most valuable 

 in determining the name. 



Let us examine the case as regards the Maryport Camp under 

 each of these heads, but first with regard to continuity. That the 

 Spanish Cohorts have been in residence at Maryport no one can 

 deny, the altars most certainly decide this. By the aid then of 

 these altars, together with others found elsewhere, we shall be able 

 to prove without the slightest difficulty that the Spanish Cohorts 

 at Maryport were not stationary, but, on the contrary, that they 

 frequently changed their quarters, at any rate during the earlier 

 years of the Roman occupation. This much is owned by Dr. Bruce, 

 who says that "the diversity of troops named on them (i.e., the 

 Maryport altars,) shows that a quicker exchange took place here 

 at that time than was usual."* 



The only words requiring explanation here are, "at that time." 

 When was it? Four, if not five of the altars discovered were dedicated 

 by Marcus Moenius Agrippa. Fortunately we are able with very 

 little difficulty to decide his identity. On a slab found near 

 Camerino in Central Italy, we are told that he was tribune of the 

 I St Cavalry Cohort of Spaniards, prefect of an ala of Gauls, also 

 of Pannonians, that he was prefect of the British fleet, and that he 

 was specially selected by the Divine Hadrian and sent on the 

 Britannic Expedition.t That both the Italian slab and the Mary 

 port altars refer to the same person there would seem to be no 

 doubt whatever. 



The statement regarding his being tribune of the first cohort of 

 the Spaniards is fully corroborated by the Maryport altars, whilst 

 his personal friendship with Hadrian is apparently testified to by 

 the fact that two of the altars, and possibly a third, are dedicated 

 to "Jupiter and the Divine Influences of the Emperor." This, 



* "The Maryport altars." Trans. Cumb. and West. Antiq. and 



Arch. Assoc, vol. I, p. 187. 



i Roman Wall. Dr. Bruce. 3rd Edition, 1867, p. 13. 



