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flatterers, therefore, on his assuming the purple, would have 
no resource left but to bestow upon him the indefinite title 
of invietus.” Ina private letter to myself, the Doctor also 
adds—“I wish I had seen your impression of the stone 
before I wrote to Mr. Way upon the subject; the sculptor 
has made more slips than I was aware of, all which make 
for the late rather than the earlier period.” 
The next thing which must be noticed is the name of 
the dedicator. The name NAEVIVS oceurs in Gruter. 
It is not without interest to observe, that one of the 
examples furnished by that author (p. civ. No. 9) contains 
the epithet adjutor appended :— 
TVTELAE 
ven 
P. NAEVIVS 
ADJVTOR 
The Nevius of the slab found in Bath was a Freedman of 
Augustus, and an assistant or secretary of the procurators 
of the province. We are not without an authority for the 
reading Adjutor Procuratorum. In Gruter, p. ccelxüi., No. 8, 
the following occurs. 
MEMORIAE, AVRELI 
DEMETRI. ADJVTORI. 
FROLO eier 
With reference to the oflice of Procurator, Dr. William 
Smith, in his Dietionary of Antiquities, Art. Provincia, has 
this remark, “No quastors were sent to the provinces 
ofthe Cxsar. In the place of the quasstors, there were 
Procuratores Cesaris, who were either equites or freedmen 
of the Cesar. The procuratores looked after the taxes, 
