VOL. XXXII.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. ()6Q 



& reges. Tliis Cogidunus seems to be the same person as Cogidubnus in our 

 inscription, the letter b in the third syllable making little or no difference in 

 the word, especially if pronounced soft, as it ought to be, like a v consonant. 



It is so well known to have been the custom of the Roman liberti and clientes, 

 to take the names of their patrons and benefactors, that it would be wasting of 

 time to prove the constant usage of that practice. Now as this Cogidubnus, 

 who probably was a petty prince of that part of the Dobuni which had sub- 

 mitted to Claudius, and one that continued many years faithful to him and the 

 Romans, had received the government of some part of the island by that em- 

 peror, nothing could be more grateful in regard to Claudius, nor more ho- 

 nourable to himself, after he was Romanized, than to take the name of a be- 

 nefactor to whom he was indebted for his kmgdom, and so call himself Tibe 

 Rivs Clavdivs Cogidvbnvs. 



The sixth line has lost at the beginning the letters colle, but so much re- 

 mains of the word as makes it to have been indubitably ; when entire, colle- 

 GivM, and the following letters are an abbreviation of fabrorvm. 



These colleges of artificers were very ancient at Rome, as ancient as their 

 second king Numa Pompilius, if we may believe Plutarch, who tells us, that 

 the people were divided by him into what we at this day call companies of 

 tradesmen, and mentions the Taxroi/f? or Fabri among them ; though Florus 

 says, that populus Romanus a Servio Tullio relatus fuit in censum, digestus in 

 classes, curiis atque collegiis distributus. But as the power of the Romans 

 extended itself, it carried the arts of that great people along with it, and im- 

 proved the nations it subdued, by civilizing, and teaching them the use of 

 whatever was necessary or advantageous among their conquerors, from which 

 most wise and generous disposition, among other beneficial institutions, we find 

 these collegia to have been established in every part of the empire, from the 

 frequent mention of them in the inscriptions collected by Gruter, Spon, and 

 other antiquaries. 



Several sorts of workmen were included under the name of Fabri, particu 

 larly all those that were concerned in any kind of building ; whence we meet 

 with the Fabri Ferrarii, Lignarii, Tignarii, Materiarii, Navales, and others ; 

 the last named may have been the authors of dedicating this temple to Nep- 

 tune, having so near a relation to the sea, from which the city of Chichester 

 is at so small a distance, that perhaps that arm of it which still comes up within 

 two miles of its walls, might formerly have washed them. The rest of the 

 fraternity might very well pay the same devotion to Minerva, the goddess of 

 all arts and sciences, and patroness of the Daedalian profession. 



As no less than five letters are wanting at the beginning of the sixth line, 



