FOUND IN BRITAIN. 117 



of natus pro bono reipublicse or generis humani before the time of 

 Constantine. With regard to the inscription on the lower stone, I 

 adhere to the opinions stated in Brit. Rom. Inserip., p. 142, that " m- 

 peratite agreed with the lost name of the emperor, forming an ablative 

 absolute. The name of the Leg. Aug. Pr. Pr., in the third and fourth 

 lines, was in the nominative case, being the subject of posuit. C. A., 

 in the last line, stand for c(uratTi) a(^gente), or c(ura7ite) A(^cilio')." I 

 must, however, withdraw my closing remark- — " Acil are the first two 

 syllables of Acilio, which was followed by the cognomen now obliter- 

 ated," for it now appears that the letters on the stone are Csecil, not 

 Acil, as given by Horsley. Objections may reasonably be made, not 

 merely to the order of the {erms according to Dr. Bruce's interpretation, 

 but also to the * two 2^''senomi7ia of the person named in the last line. 

 As to the usual order, see Orelli, nn. 3275, 3329. 



(c?) In Brit. Rom. Inserip., p. 154, § 70 is devoted to the considera- 

 tion of an altar, which Dr. Bruce expanded and translated thus : 



" DIISDE ABVSQVESE- 

 CVNDVMINTERPRE- 

 TATIONEMORACV- 

 LICLARIAPOLLINIS 

 COH[ORS] PRIMATVKGRORVM. 

 " The first cohort of the Tungrians (dedicated this structure) to the Gods and 

 the Goddesses, according to the direction of the oracle of the illustrious A250II0." 



My remarks are : — "■ I have no doubt that I, in CLARI, stands, as 

 is common, for II; and that CLARII is the well-known epithet which 

 Apollo derived from Clarus (near Colophon in Ionia), where he had a 

 celebrated temple and oracle. It is scarcely necessary to cite illustra- 



* There are several examples of two prcenomina (see Marini, Atti Arval. i, p. 

 2.34) but they are not common any where, and are extremely rare in Britain. 

 In the inscription given in p. 332, we have M. G. SECVNDINVS, which, if the 

 reading be correct, can scarcely be read otherwise than Marcus Gains. The 

 single letter G, however, may stand for Gains, meaning of the gens Gaia. 

 Thus Dr. Bruce reads S. VAPOLLINARIS, in p. 361, as Seztus Valerius Apol- 

 linaris, regarding BR in smaller letters above the V as standing for Brocavi. I 

 doubt, however, whether it is not better to read VABR as standing for Vabrius, 

 i. e., Seztus Vabrius Apollinaris. See p. 205. As I have adverted to prcBuomina, 

 I may mention that the centurion named in the inscription, given in p. Ill, was, 

 probably, not Marcus, but Manius Liburnius Fronto, although the character on 

 the stone differs from that ordinarily used for 3Ianius by having A , not V, as the 

 addition to the M. 



