SYLVA CRITICA CANADENSIUM. er 
Gemelli c(ustodis) a(rmorum) Fl(avius) Hilario s(ecundus) h(eres) 
SF (aciendum) e(wravit). 
The stone is figured in Lapidariwm Septentrionale, n, 446. It is 
expanded thus, and the following remarks are given : 
“DM Diis Manibus 
GEMELLI:C:A‘° Gemelli carissimo amico (?) 
HUSH ARTO 8 “HH: RC Flavius Hilario secundus heres faciendum 
curavit. 
*« This inscription has been variously expanded. For the reading here given 
the editor is indebted to Professor Henzen, who in a private communication 
says: ‘Second heirs occur very frequently in military inscriptions ; and though 
our inscription does not belong to a soldier, it must have belonged to a person 
attached to the camp. Therefore I have little doubt about my explanation.’ 
The only remaining difficulty belonging to the inscription is the expansion of 
C. A. at the end of the second line. Professor Hiibner thinks that the letters 
‘indicate a military. charge.’ Dr. McCaul proposes to read the line ‘ Gemelli 
custodis armorum.’” 
In the Canadian Journal, Vol. XIT., p. 122 (to which the learned 
editor of the Lapidariwm Septentrionale refers), the following are the 
terms of the article on this inscription, in the Review of Dr. Bruce’s 
Roman Wall, 3rd Edition: 
“In consequence of the incorrect representations of the inscription that have hitherto been 
given, the last two letters of the word Gemellica being separated from the rest, and a full stop 
after each, great has been the perplexity of those who have attempted to read it, and various 
the interpretations that have been given of it. Gemellica, it must be confessed, 1s a name 
which we have: not previously met with. Diis Manibus. Gemellica Flavio Hilario sepulehrum 
hoe jiert curavit. To the divine manes, Gemellica to Flavius Hilarius caused this sepulchre to 
be erected.’ 
“Tf the reading Gemellica be assumed as correct, I would read the inserip. 
tion thus: ‘ Diis Manibus. Gemellica. Flavius Hilario secundus heres faciendum 
curavil.’ Gemellica may be in the nominative, or may stand for Gemellice. 
Hilario is a name that occurs more frequently than Hilarius, and secundus 
heres is not uncommon. See Orelli, nn. 3416, 3481. The head, however, 
which is carved below the inscription seems to be rather that of a man with a 
beard, than of a woman with a head-dress. Hence I would suggest, instead 
of Gemellica, GEMELLI °C - A., t.e., Gemelli custodis armorum; and this I 
regard as the most probable rendering.” 
It appears, then, that the interpretation of C. A. was originally 
given in the Canadian Journal in 1868. 
3. The remark immediately following this in the Zphemeris Epigra 
phica, 1877, is: “Ad n. 914. V. 6 ad Solvam Norici oppidum 
rettulit Buechelerus in censura, recte puto. Itaque solvendum 
Mar(ti) Coc(idio) m(ilites) leg(ionis) II Aug(uste) c(enturia) Sanc- 
trana c(enturia) Secundini d(omo) Sol(venses) e. q. s. 
