222 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS 



land, in which M» Manius Agrippa is named, may be referred to a 

 year between 120 or 121 A.D. and 138 A.D., probably at the begin- 

 ning|of this period. See Monum. Hist. Brit. nn. 1 1, 92. 



62. In Mr. Lee's Isca Silurum, and " Delineation of Roman Anti- 

 equities found at Caerleon," a slab is figured, which bears the following 

 inscription :— 



■IMPP- VALERIAN VS ET GALLIENVS 

 AVGGET VALERIANVS NOBILISSIMVS 

 CAES-COHORTI VII-CENTVRIAS-A SO 

 LO RESTITVERVNT-PERDESTICIVM I VRAM 

 VCLEGATVM AVGGPR PRET 

 VITVLASIVM LAETINIANVM LEG -LEG 

 II • AVG • CVRANTE • DOMIT • POTENTINO 

 PRAEF- LEG- EIVSDEM 



As the interpretation is fully discussed in my " Britanno-Roman 

 Inscriptions," it is not my intention to take up this part of the sub- 

 ject again. There is a question, however, relative to the date, that I 

 now desire to examine. In a review of Mr. Lee's Isca Silurum, in 

 the Gentleman' s Magazine, for August, 1862, the author remarked : 



" A9 this [restoration] took place in the reign of Valerian and Gallienus, 

 when Valerian, the son of Gallienus, was Csesar, the date of the inscription 

 must be between A.D. 253 and A.D. 259, just before the rerolt of Postumus in 

 Gaul, when the young Csesar was murdered." 



In Brit. Rom. Inscrip,, p. 125, I rejected these statements as 

 erroneous, observing : " Gallienus was not associated in the empire 

 until A.D. 254, nor was his son Saloninus, the * young Csesar,' killed 

 until A.D. 260 ;" and I appendeci the note, with the object of doing 

 justice to a previous enquirer, — " Mr. Newton, Monum. Hist. Brit,, 

 gives the correct dates." The same critic, in reviewing my book 

 in the Gentleman's Magazine, for April, 1863, notices my observation 

 in the following terms: 



" We are quite willing to rest upon the dates we have given, which are usually 

 accepted ; and refer Dr. McCaul to the elaborate paper on the family of the 

 Emperor Valerian in the Baron Marchants' Lettres sur le Numismatique et I'Hii- 

 ioire." 



To this the note is appended : 



'* Paris, 1851. ' Comme il est positif que Salonin est mort in 259/ &c., p. 440. 

 A..D. 253, is even more generally admitted as the year in which Valerian ad- 

 mitted Gallienus as his imperial associate." 



