FOUND IN BRITIAN. 109 



Archseologia Juliana, some are corrected and others are extended, and 

 in some cases readings are given for the first time. 



In a considerable number of these, Dr. Bruce has been anticipated 

 in the pages of this Journal, and in " Britanno-Roman Inscriptions," 

 e. gr. (in addition to those specified by him) in *Curatori, in p. 64, 

 in the partial restoration of the fragmentary inscription in p, 65, in 

 '\ Imaginifer in p. 68, in the readings \Parthicis Medicis, and Coh^ 1. 



* A much improved woodcut is given in the third edition, of the stone bear- 

 ing the inscription in which this word occurs. It now appears to be — 



D M 



AVE ? ? ENO 

 CVRATORI-ALAE 

 IIASTVRSTIPXV 

 iEIO ? ENVSDEC 

 OSPPCE ? COS 

 Dr. Bruce expands it — 



Biis Manibus Aventino ( ?) curatori aim II Asturum sHpendiorum XV, Mliomenus f ?) Decurio. 

 To the divine manes — to Aventinus the curator of the second ala of Astures, having served fif- 

 teen years, jEliomenus (?) the decurion [erected this monument]. 



In the second line Dr. Bruce has, inadvertently, omitted Aurelio, which seema 

 to be clear. The reading of the other letters in the line is very uncertain. 

 Antlieno seems more probable than Aventino. In the fifth line I is within the O, 

 and the letters in ligature after it seem to be ME, so that Mliomenus (or H^l. 

 lomenus ?) is not improbable. The appearance of COS at the end of the last line 

 suggested to me the idea that the consular year was stated, but I have not been 

 able to determine the names or name. OS, followed by PR (for the second P 

 may be a relic of R), led me to think of Sosius Priscus, but this conjecture is 

 not consistent with the remains of the other letters. 



•j- If I had seen the woodcut in the third edition, representing the altar, in 

 which IKKGc^Imaginifer is found, I also should have read COH'II'DELMA 

 = Cohortis II Delmatarum, but the woodcut in the second edition misled me, for 

 in it the final syllables of the name of the cohort seem plainly to be ORVM_ 

 Hence I chose of the two cohorts known to have been at Magna, where the stone 

 was found, Hamiorum in preference to Delmatarum. As I have adverted to the 

 Cohors Hamiorum, known only from British inscriptions, I may mention that I 

 have but little doubt that it was named in Hadrian's Diploma of 124. The let- 

 ters are L.M'SALIN" I would supply HA as the two missing letters. On the 

 meaning of SALIN I can ofi"er no feasible conjecture, but it has occurred to me 

 that it may possibly be a mis-reading of SAGIT., i. e., Sagiltariorum. 



X In the third edition there is an excellent woodcut, representing this fragment. 

 ary inscription, by which my readings {Canadian Journal, 1865) seem to be 



confirmed — scil, Antonino et (Par)thicis Medicis, and !• Ecetorum, I 



had remarked, " It is plain from the epithets, Parthicis, Medicis^ that the empe- 



