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The Thames rising in Gloucestershire, separates Oxfordshire 
and Buckinghamshire from Berkshire, Middlesex from Surrey, and 
Essex from Kent. It dips into Wilts near the northern boundary 
of that county at Cricklade, and the chief towns on it are :— 
London, Gravesend, Woolwich, Greenwich, Deptford, Richmond, 
Kingston, Staines, Eton, Maidenhead, Marlow, Henley, Reading, 
Wallingford, Abingdon, Oxford, Witney, Burford. 
The following inscription is copied from a votive altar now in 
the garden wall of the villa Albani at Rome, at the head of the 
Ilex Walk (8th January, 1878).* It is stated to have been found 
in a garden plot near the Tiber. 
SEX + ATVSIVS 
SEX : FIL - FABIA 
ROMA - PRISCVS 
EVOC - AVG 
PRIMVS - OMNI 
VM : ARAM - TIBERIN 
POSVIT : QVAM : GALI 
CATVS » VOVERAT 
‘“‘Sextus Atusius Priscus, the son of Sextus, of the Tribe Fabia, 
“ of Rome, one of the Imperial body-guard, first of all placed an 
“altar to the river Tiber, which had been vowed by Gallicatus,” 
The Evocati, named in the Inscription, were either soldiers who - 
had served their time, but were liable to be called to do military 
duty as Volunteers. “ Voluntarii,” or the name “‘ Evocati,” was 
given by Galba to young men of the Equestrian order, who formed 
his body-guard. The addition of the word Aug(usti) leads to the 
supposition that the dedicator belonged to the latter. 
The Tiberis, or Tibris, was also called Tiburinus, the old name 
of the river being Albula. 
* See Corp. Ins. Lat., Vol. vi. 
