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PartTi. AdiaienlCO,^ and the defect in the third line is supplied by 

 JEt. P. Sept. GefcB nob. Cces. Cos.f In the Index Rerum et Nominum^ 

 p. cxlvi., viri consularis seems to be suggested as the explanation 

 of VOCOS, and C. Antistio Advento as another reading of 

 COLANITI ADVENTO. 



From what has been stated, it is evident that the parts of the 

 inscription as yet not satisfactorily explained, are the names COL 

 ANITI, and the letters O P P S. It appears to me that the 

 difficulties as to the first of these have arisen from mistaking O for 

 C, and vice-versa, i.e. reading COL for OCL \ and from inverting 

 the order of the first three letters in the ligulate group |;J , i.e. 

 reading NIT for TIN ; for I have no doubt that the individual 

 here named is the same Adventus who, some years afterwards, in 

 A.D. 218, was Consul with the Emperor Macrinus. His nomem 

 gentilicium is variously given as Codatinus, Oclatintfs, and Oclatini'm^ 

 He is named in the following inscriptions ; 



YICTORIAE • REDVCIS • DD • NN 



^ m m ^ m * ^ 



PII • EELICIS • AVa • ET • * * * 

 LIAE ***** * 

 ^ IVGI • B • N • MILITES • LEG ' II 

 PARTH- ***** 



AET • Q • M ' COCLATINO AD 

 VENTO • COS • &c. &c. 



(Pabretti, p. 339, and Relandi Fast. Consul, p. 137.) 



* The learned editor of the Monumenta Historioa Britanmca douhtless bad authority 

 for the collocation which he suggests of the titles of Severns ; but I am not aware of any 

 example of them in that order. They are usually placed as Henaen gives them in his re- 

 storation. 



t The addition of COS seems to be justified by the fact, that in the year A.i>. 206, Cara- 

 calla was Consul for the second time, and Geta for the first. In Dr. Brace's copy of the 

 inscription, we have, in the third line, COS I instead of COS II ; but this, I presume, is a 

 mistake. If not, we should omit COS from Geta's titles, as the inscription would then 

 be of A.D. 202. The addition of I after COS, instead of COS alone which is the re- 

 cognized form for a first consulship, suggests the conjecture, that this style may have been 

 derived by Caracalla from his father, whose coins of his first consulship present the strajige 

 peculiarity of I after COS. Perhaps there was some reference to this in the phrase ter^ 

 et semel cos by which the year 202 was marked. But I must add, that I have never ae«a 

 an example, in the case of Caracalla, of I after COS on either coins or stones. 



