FOUND IN BRITAIN. 119 



(c) la page 245, an altar is figured, that bears the following inscrip- 

 tion : — 



FORTVJSr 

 AVDAC RO 

 MATSrVSO 

 LEGYI-XX 



Ava 



Dr. Bruce expands and translates it thus: 



" Fortunce Audactus Romanus 3 Leg. VI. XX. [II] AVG. [Dedicated] to 

 Fortune [by] Audactus Romanus, a centurion of the sixth, twentieth and second 

 legions." 



He also offers the following remarks : 



"An altar, which belongs to this station (^Magna), has been dedicated to For- 

 tune by Audactus (?) Romanus, who seems to have held, no doubt successively, 

 the office of centurion in all the British legions — the sixth, the twentieth and the 

 second, styled the August." 



This expansion is the same as that given by Horsley, except the sub- 

 stitution of Audactus for Audacius, which Dr. Bruce declined accepting, 

 probably because there is no example of a gens Audacia ; and yet his 

 Audactus is almost equally unprecedented, and has the additional defect 

 of being a cognomen. On the erroneous opinion that the same person 

 could not hold the office of centurion in different legions at the same 

 time, it is sufficient to cite Henzen's n. 6779, where we learn that the 

 offices of primipihis in one legion and princess in another were held at 

 the same time by one person. The words are, iia ut in leg. X. primum 

 pil. duceret eodem tempore jprinceps esset leg. VI, My view, however, 

 of this inscription is, that it marks the erection of the altar, not by a 

 centurion, but by the legions themselves. I would expand it, Fortunce 

 Audaci'ae Romanss votum solverunt legiones YI, XX, IT Augusta. In 

 the third line there was, probably, "'^ L or LL over II in the fourth. 

 Audacias Romanse may be in either genitive or dative, ^. e., "To the 

 Fortune of Roman Daring," or " To Fortune, to Roman Daring." I 

 prefer the first. See Orelli, n. 2131. 



(^d) In p. 270, two inscriptions, both found since the publication of 

 the second edition, are figured. They are unfortunately imperfect. 



LVCA 

 (1) IBRVTVS (2) AEFALAEAVGYSTAE 



DEC AL PET PETRIANAETORQ^CR 



DD 



* If the character read by Mr. Mossman as is really 0, then VS I) may be 

 votum solverunt centuriones, &c. 



