850 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS 



The following notice of this slab is given by Mr. "Wright, in " the 

 Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon," p. 321 : — 



" A monument found at Wroxeter {Lfriconimn) mentions an oflBce, the exact 

 character of which seems to be doubtful, though the curator agrarum or agrct/rius, 

 may have been the overseer, or bailiff, of the town lands. The monument con- 

 sists of a tablet in three columns or compartments ; that in the middle containg 

 an inscription to the officer ; the one on the left has an inscription to the wife ; the 

 other is blank, and it has either been left so for a son, or has become erased. The 

 central inscription is: — 



D*M To the gods of the shades, 



DEVCCV Deucdus 



S- V- AN-XV lived fifteen (?) years, 



CVR'AG- he was overseer of the lands 



RA TRE of Trebonius. (?) 



" The number of years is perhaps not correctly read from the stone, which seeiasJ 

 to be in bad condition. The other inscription is:— 



Independently of the objections, that there is no authority for the! 

 office of curator agrorum, and that no account is taken of A in the 

 5th line of the central inscription, I am unable to perceive any 

 grounds for passing over the obvious interpretation of CVE.* AG seiL 

 cur[am] ag[ente]. The form is found in many sepulchral inscrip- 

 tions ; and on p. 315 of Mr. Wright's work we have an example ; — ■ 



CVEA[M] AaENTE 

 AMANDA 



comvaE. 



EATEE is evidently either EEATEE, the F and E being ligulate, or 

 PATEE, the P having been mistaken far R. 



In an able and timely* summary of information relative ta UriocO" 

 nium by the Eev. H. M. Scarth, of Bath, which has recently been 

 published in the Journal of the Archaeological Institute, this witb 



* Wroxeter, in consectuence of the discoveries which have lately been made there, is at 

 present regarded with much interest by antiquaries, and " a well organized moveraent has a# 

 length been made for the exploration of the site of Urioeoniiim." 



