SYLVA CRITICA CANADENSIUM, — 79 
legionis tricesime Ulpic Victricis, sub cura agentium Tite Flavi Apri 
Commodiant. 
4. In the Ephemeris Epigraphica, 1877, Vol. III., pp. 132, 133, the 
following account is given of two inscriptions, on which I offered 
some observations in the Canadian Journal, Vol. XTV., p. 544: 
‘*Legendum igitur Victoriz Augg. Alfeno Senecion[e] co(n) s(ulari) felix ala 
[prima] As(turum). Seneciené pro casu sexto fortasse positum est barbare. 
Manifestum est, alam ipsam felicem dictam lapidem dedicavisse (ut infra 
in n, 100 hujus additamenti); sed quid M et PRA litterz significent, que iam 
non possunt coniungi cum reliquis, ignoro; nisi fuit M(arciano) pra(efecto). 
Expectamus cognomina ale imperatoria, veluti Antoniniane. Ceterum in altero 
textus exemplo omnino desunt. Observa Genios, non Victorias, in lateribus. 
Hee mecum communicavit W. Th. Watkin, 
In the Journal of the Archeological Institute, 1878, Vol. XX XIV., 
p- 144, Mr. W. Thomson Watkin writes thus, having given an ac- 
count of the copy of the inscription in the Ashmolean Museum : 
‘*In any case the correct reading of the stone is established, showing that the 
word Felix, instead of being a proper name, is used in the same sense as in the 
inscription lately found at Cilurnum.” 
The inscription lately found at Cilurnum is thus given by Hiibner, in n. 160 
of the Additamenta : 
(S)ALVIS AVGG 
(F)ELIX - ALA : Il: ASTVR 
A 
VIRTVS 
AVGG* 
Bruce lapid. append., p. 472, n. 943, qui annotat alteram G in vocabulo AVGG 
utroque loco eradi ceptam esse. Idem accidit vocabulo [AntoninianJa. Brucius 
non sine probabilitate propter titulum, n. 585, in quo Antoninianz cognomen 
item erasum est, cogitavit de Elagabalo et Alexandro Augustis. Alam II 
Asturum Cilurni in castris fuisse ad quintum usque seeculum notum est. 
The stone is figured in the Lapidarium Septentrionale, n. 943, and 
the following expansions and remarks are there given : 
‘‘Salvis Augustis 
felix ala secunda Asturum 
Antoniniana (?) 
Virtus 
Augustorum.” 
‘*The inscription is different from any that we have previously met with. 
The evident meaning of it is, ‘So long as the Emperors are safe the second ala 
of Asturians will be happy.’ A reference to the inscription, n. 121, leads us 
to suppose that the Emperors to whom this flattering compliment was paid were 
Hlagabalus and Severus Alexander. Very soon after this inscription was carved 
