78 SYLVA CRITICA CANADENSIUM. 
The stone is figured in the Lapidariwm Septentrionale. It is 
expanded thus, and the following remarks are given : 
“MARTI COC M 
LEG : IT AVG 
> SANCTIANA 
> SECVNDINI 
D-:SOL: SVB CV 
RA: ALIANI C (?) 
CVRA * OPPIVS 
FELIX OPTIO 
Marti Cocidio milites 
legionis secunde Augustze 
Centuria Sanctiana 
centuria Secundini 
Deo (?) Solverunt (?) sub cu 
ra Adliani centurionis (?) 
curavit Oppius 
Felix optio 
‘The inscription presents some difficulties. The meaning seems to be this— 
the altar was dedicated to Mars Cocidius; the dedicators were some soldiers 
belonging to two centuries of the second legion, the century Sanctiana, and the 
century of Secundinus; the party being at the time under the command of the 
centurion Ajlianus; Oppius Felix, the optio, took charge of its erection. 
**The editor has in vain sought for some authority for the expansion of the 
letters D ‘SOL ‘in the fifth line. Noneis to befound. The Rev. John Hodgson 
reads de solo ; such an expression is often used as to a building, but is inappli- 
cable to an altar. Professor Hiibner suggests, though very doubtfully, dato 
solo. Mr. Clayton proposes deo or deis solverunt.” 
The letters D - SOL, doubtless, present very considerable difficulty. I 
have never met with them before. Various expansions have suggested 
themselves to my mind, the best of which I regard the following :— 
D[evoti] SOLi]. With this view we may compare the inscription 
in Lersch, C’. Musewm, n. 14, Bonn, or Steiner, Cod. Inscrip. Rom 
Danubii et Rheni, n. 1268: 
IN*'H*D* DeBBO 
SALVTE : IMP :SEVERI 
ALEXANDIRI : AVG - DEO 
APOLLINI : DYS* PRO-LV:S 
OLQ* DE: MILITES - LEG - 
XXX: V+ VitPeheISVb i CVRA 
AGENT + T-F- APRI 
COMMODIAN -e‘q‘s° 
t.€., In honorem domus Divine, pro salute Imperatoris Severt Alex 
andri Augusti, Deo Apollini, Dis propitiis Lune Solique devoti milites 
