94 INSCRIBED SLING-BULLETS. 



The glandes, that bear Latin inscriptions, have been found* chiefly 

 at Enna, Asculum, Mrmum, and Perusia. They have nearly the 

 same varieties as those which I have already noticed. 



(1) tL-PISO-L-r COS, tQ-SAL IM. 



(2) JFIR, OPITERGIN. 



(3) §MAR 



VLT. 



(4) **C-CAESAEVS 



VICTORIA. 



tfESVEEIS 

 (6) tt^VaiTIVI PERISTIS, ffEERI, ETME 



CELAS. 

 There is a peculiar class inscribed with the designation of le- 

 gions, as 

 (7) UL-VM P FEL, «sJ^1V'a ^"^'^'^^ '^^''A'^l^ll^ X-MILLIA. 



(1) The names of men inscribed on these objects were those of the 

 chiefs, or commanding officers, or persons who ordered the casting 

 of the bullets. On onel] we have the maker's name clearly stated, 

 scU. T. FABRICIVS EECIT. 



L • PISO • L • E • COS, i.e. Lucius Piso, Luciifilius, consul, on a glans 

 found at Enna, is Lucius Calpurnius Piso, who was consul in 133 B.C., 

 and led an army in that year against the slaves under Eunus, in 

 Sicily. Enna, near which this bullet was found, was not captured 

 by him but by his successor, Rupilius. We may infer, however, 

 from this and similar inscriptions, as Mommsen suggests, that he 

 had attempted to take it. Q*SAL IM stand for Quirdus Salvidi- 

 enus [Bm/us Salvius] Imperafor, who had a command at Perusia, in 

 41 B.C. He was on his way to Spain with six legions, when he was 



• Mr. Hawkins, Archmol. p. 105, observes : " Specimens of sling-bullets with Roman 

 characters, are far more scai-ce than those with the Greek letters. The largest number 

 have been found at Florence, where (as conjectured) there was formerly a Roman arsenal." 

 I am not aware of the authority on which these statements have been m«de. A consider- 

 able number have been found in Tuscany, at il Castellare, not far from Pisa. See Targioni 

 Tozzetti, viaggi in Toscana, i. p. 352. 

 t Mommsen, Corp. Inscrip. Latin, nn. 642, 689. 

 % nn. 652, 710. 

 § n. 686. 

 •* n. 685. 



t+ nn. 647, 649, 692. 

 XX nn. 695, 700. 701. 

 11 Mommsen, n. 711- 



