i'OUND IN BRITAIN. 123 



may stand for Gemellicoe. Hllario is a name that occurs more fre- 

 quently than Hilarius, and secundus heres is not uncommon. See 

 Orelli, nn. 3416, 3481. The head, however, which is carved below 

 the inscription seems to be rather that of a man with a beard, than of 

 a woman with a head-dress. Hence I would suggest, instead of Gemel- 

 lica, GEMELLI" C 'A., ^. e., GemeJli custodis armorum; and this I 

 regard as the most probable rendering. 



((/) In p. 325, 3rd edition, we have the following account of a sepul- 

 chral stone, there figured, which was found near the station at Breme- 

 nium, High Rochester : 



" Besides the Vavduli, we have a ti'ace of the Breuci at this station, or at least 

 of their prefect, who had formerly also been commander of a cohort of Lnsita- 

 nians. The funereal stone, represented in the annexed engraving, and which 

 is now built into the chancel of Elsdon church, was found in 1809, in a field 

 opposite the north-east corner of the station. The upper part of the inscription, 

 unfortunately, came off in flates, when the stone was raised, leaving a distinct 

 impression of the letters on the clay. The number of the cohort on this slab is 

 indistinct ; it is probably II, or perhaps III, but there is not room for HIT. The 

 Breuci were a people of Pannonia. This is the only distinct notice that we have 

 of them in Britain, unless tiles which have been found at Slack, in Yorkshire, 

 bearing the stamp of COH. IIII. BRE. refer to them. Probably the husband 

 of Julia Lucilla was brought from Rome to superintend the roads in this district. 

 He was evidently a man of^considerable importance. This is the first time we 

 meet with the office of ' alimentarius ' in a British inscription." 



The following is the inscription : 



***** 

 ****** * 



* ;>:- * ****** 



************ 



* * * * * * * * * -:;;- _^VQ. * * 



LVSITANOR ITEM COHII 

 BREVCOR SVBCYRYIAE 

 FLAMINIAE ET ALIMENT 

 SYBCYR OPERYM PYBL 

 lYLIALYCILLACFMARITO 

 BM YJX AW XLYIII 

 M YI DXXY 



Dr. Bruce expands and translates it thus : 



"[Z>. i/,] \_Prcefecli cohortis 11 Auglustce] Lusitanorum item cohortis 11. (?) 

 Sreucor[u7ii'] Subcurl_atoris'] vic& Flaminiai et aliment[orum'\ Subcurlatorisl 

 operum j>ubl[ieorum'] Julia Lucilla c\_uravil2 f[_ieri'] mariio 5[e?ie] ml_e?-enti'\ 

 vixliQ anlnos'] XLVIII m[enses] VI. c?[zes] XXV. 



