Appendix, Explanation of a Roman Inscription, 677 
Note by Dr. Hore, 
The following is, I apprehend, a more correct tran- 
script of the inscription, than that exhibited in plate VII, 
page 534. The characters I have ventured to supply in 
italics, are obscure in the original. Inthe engraved copy 
an O is substituted for the Q in the fourth line; and there 
is a member redundant in the complication that fol- 
lows it. . 
CHOR. I. 
FRISIAVO 
N. Q. VI. MVNI. 
M. P. XXIII 
Probably : 
Cohortis prema Frisiavonum que viam munivit millizm 
Passuum viginti quatuor : which may refer to the con- 
struction of the military road between Mancunium and 
Conpate ; as the distance between these stations, fixed 
by Richard of Cirencester in his tenth Iter at twenty- 
three miles, measures, according to Mr, Whitaker, twenty- 
two English, which are nearly equivalent to twenty- 
three Roman miles and three quarters.* 
The relic before us is of importance, as it enables us to 
restore the proper appellation of the cohort that garris- 
oned Mancunium: concerning which antiquarians have 
been misled by an ambiguous contraction in the in- 
scription at Melandra Castle, and probably in that tran- 
scribed for Camden by Dr. Dee. It is farther valuable, 
as it may serve to vindicate the authority of Pliny and 
the purity of his text, in regard to a subject on which 
they have been questioned, in a work of great erudition 
* Hist. of Manchester, I, 102. 
