678 Appendix. Explanation of a Roman Inscription. 
published by an eminent scholar of the seventeenth cen- 
tury*. ’ ( ‘ 
The Fristasones, or adopting the reading of Har- 
duin’s MSS. FrisitaAvones, are twice mentioned by 
the elder Pliny; first as inhabitants of an island situated 
at the mouth of the Rhine, between the Maese and 
the Zuyder Zee; and secondly asa nation of Belgic 
Gault. The former are supposed by Harduin to have 
- been a body of emigrants from the latter. The name is 
likewise preserved in an inscription found at Rome, of 
which I insert a copy from Gruter§. . Tea 
T. FL, VERINO. 
NAT. FRISZVONE. 
VIX. AN. XX. M. VII. . 
T. FL. VICTOR. ad 
EQ. SING. AVG. FRATRI, 
DVLCISSIMO. 
Fy Cy 
Whether the Mancunian cohort was the same with 
the Cohors I. Frixagorum of the Notitia, stationed in 
the decline of the empire at Vindobala, is a question 
that must be decided by future discoveries; as no in- 
scriptions occur at Rutchester, which is supposed by 
Mr, Horsley to coincide with that station. Ei 
‘ E. H. 
February 24, 1802. 
* Vid, Cluverii German. Antiq, 561. 
"+ Hist. Nat. Lib. IV. capp. 29. 31. 
§ Inscript. Antiq. DXXXIL. 7. 
