352 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS 



13. On another of these gravestones is the following inscKption : 



MANNIVS C[aius] ManniuP, 



CE POL SBCV C[aii] f[ilius], Pol[Iia]^n&w, Secu- 



NDVS POLLEN ndus, Pollen[tia], 



MIL LEQ XX mil[es] leg[ioms] XX, 



ANORVLII an[n]oru[m] Lit, 



STIP XXXI stip [endiorum] XXXI, 



BEN LEG- PE ]>en[eficiarius] leg[ati] principalis]^ 



USE [hie] [situs] e[at]. 



Mr. Scarth remarks, that this inscription " may be thus renderecf % 

 ' — Caius Mannius Secundus,* son of Caius^ of PoUentum, a soldier of 

 the twentieth legion, aged 52 jears ; having served 31 years in the- 

 legion and being the beneficiary of the principal legate. He rest* 

 here." 



Of this rendering I would suggest the following emendations : — 

 the insertion of the words *' of the PolHan tribe " after " son of 

 Caiu3," " Pollentia " for " PoUentum," and '* priacipalt beneficiary 

 of the legate" for "beneficiary of the principal legate." As to the- 

 first of these, it is plain that the words proposed to be inserted were 

 inadvertently omitted. The substitution of Pollentia for Pollenium 

 is recommended by the consideration, that there were three ancient 

 towDS so ealled,^ — one in Liguria, another in Picenum, and a third in 

 the Balearic isles ; whilst there is no authority, so far as I am aware^ 

 for PoUentum. In the following inscription found at Zurzach in 

 Switzerland, (Orelli, n. 455,) we have the name alm^ost complete i — 



GIACVS 



, . . POLIASTPEE 

 PO . . ENTIA MILES 

 LEO-XIC.P.F 7 SALNI 

 MAXIMI ANNOEV 

 XXXVSTIP ... 



• The writer in the The Gentleman's Magazine, already referred to, gives the name of 

 this soldier aa Caiiis Marimus Secundits PoUentius ; and adds that he " was slso a pen-' 

 sioner of the first legion (l.e., beneficiariws legionis pmwis), but both these ressdings are- 

 manifestly erroneous, 



t The word "principaV as ordinarily used in English^ does not convey the- meaning of 

 principalis as applied to a Roman soldier. The Latin term means that the person soi* 

 styled was one of the principales, a designation given to sub-ofiBCers or officials, in contra* 

 distinction to munifices or gregariij which denoted the common soldiers op privates^ 

 Vide Veget. de re Militari, ii. c- 7. 



