INSCRIBED SLING-BULLETS. 95 



recalled by Caius Caesar, to take part in the siege. Eckhel, v. 299, 

 notices a denarius having on one side the head of Cgesar, with the 

 legend C-C^SAE-III- VIE-E-P-C, Le. Cains Ccesar Triumvir 

 Reipublicce Constituendce : and on the other a winged thunderbolt, 

 also found on this fflans, with the legend Q-SALVIVS'IMP- COS- 

 DESIGr, i.e. Quintus Salvius Imperator Consul Designatus. The 

 date is almost certainly determined to the year 41, for in the year 

 following Quintus Salvius was killed, as we learn from Dio, xlviii. 33. 

 On a glans, which is a memorial of Caesar's hostilities with the sons 

 of Pompey in Spain, we have a similar inscription: CN* MAG- 

 IMP, i.e. Cneius Magnus hnperator, soil. Cneius the son of Pompey 

 the Great. Prom Mommsen's account of it, n. 681, it does not 

 appear whether it was found at Munda, where the decisive battle 

 was fought, or at Attegua, which was besieged during this war. 



KAAAI^TPATOY, on a bullet found in Corcyra, seems to be the 

 name of the Prytanis eponyinus, in whose year the missiles bearing 

 the name were cast. See Boeckh, nn. 1865, 1866. 



The last two inscriptions in (7) have the names of the cen- 

 turions, who ordered the casting of the glandes, soil. Scceva and 

 Lucius M<jenius, of the 12th legion. Mommsen regards them both 

 as primipili. Of the first there can be no doubt, as the letters 

 PE'PIL prove his rank; but as the latter is designated merely by 

 PE,' , I am inclined to think that he was Princeps. 



X-MILLIA, 10,000, of course, gives the number of bullets that 

 were ordered. 



In the Journal of the Archceological Institute, 1863, p. 198, we 

 find another example of the primipilus, on a glans, (in the posses- 

 sion of Mr. Portnum), which was also found at Perusia. It bears 

 the inscription, — ATIDI-PE- PIL'LEG- YI, i.e. Atidii Primipili 

 legionis sextcs. 



(2) The names of towns may have indicated the places where the 

 bullets were made, or from which those who used them came, or in 

 defence of which they were thrown ; and the names of peoples were 

 of those by whom or for whom they were thrown. PIE- in n. (2) 

 is inscribed on a glans found* on the bank of the river Truentus. 



* Mr. Eich states that this bullet was " found at the ancient Labicum." This is a 

 mistake, probably derived from Ficoroni, who makes the same statement. See Mommsen 

 n. 652. 



