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as the station that may be assumed to have been there would otherwise 

 be omitted in the list of posts per lineam valli. Is the name of the 

 river Peterell in any way connected with Petriana ? And does the 

 plural form — '•'■ PetrianW^ — indicate that the ala was quartered in 

 more than one camp or station along its course ? 



(e) In p. 61, Brit, Rom. Inscrip., I have noticed the different mean- 

 ings of the term decurio. We have examples of the use of the term 

 in the third edition of '' The Roman Wall," on which some observa- 

 tions may be useful. In p. 283, the abbreviations DEC PRINC are 

 expanded by Dr. Bruce, Decurio Principum. There is no authority, so 

 far as I am aware, for such an office, whether civil or military. Decurio 

 principalis seems to me a preferable expansion. See Henzen's Index, 

 p. 153. In p. 127, Dr. Bruce finds another decurio in the inscription: 

 Deo L. Sentius Castus leg. VI. D. P. He reads Decurio posuit, and 

 remarks in a note: "The letters D. P. can only be conjecturally ex- 

 tended. Something is wanting to show the dedicator's position in the 

 legion : decurio (the commander of a troop of ten horsemen), the term 

 here suggested, does this. The initials have sometimes been read 

 dedicat pie." I have no doubt that the reading Decurio posuit cannot 

 be justified. I would suggest de peculio. See Brit. Rom. Inscrip., 

 pp. 61, 92, and Orelli, n. 4416. As to the remark — " Something is 

 wanting to show the dedicator's position in the legion " — it is sufficient 

 to observe that such an omission is common. See n. 79 (a)., and p. 307. 



(/) In p. 283, a grave-stone is figured, that bears the following 

 inscription : 



D M 

 GEMELLIC-A- 

 FLHILARIO-S-H-FC 



Dr. Brace's remarks are : 



" In consequence of the incorrect representations of the inscription that have 

 hitherto been given, tlie last two letters of the word Gemellica being separated 

 from the rest, and a full stop after each, great has been the perplexity of those 

 who have attempted to read it, and various the interpretations that have been 

 given of it. Gemellica, it must be confessed, is a name which we have not pre- 

 viously met with. Diis Manibus. Gemellica Flavio Hilario sepulchrum hoe fieri 

 curavit. To the divine manes. Gemellica to Flavins Hilarius caused this sepulchre 

 to be erected." 



If the reading Gemellica be assumed as correct, I would read the 

 inscription thus : — "i)m 31anihus. Gemellica. Flavins Hilario secun- 

 dus heres faciendum curavit." Gemellica may be in the nominative, or 



