124 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS 



" To the divine manes of tlie prefect of the first cohort, the Augustan, of 



the Lusitani, also of the second cohort of the Breuci, subcurator of the Flami- 

 nian way, and of the distribution of maintoncance, subcurator of public works, 

 Julia JliUciUa had this erected to her husband well deserving. He lived forty- 

 eight years, six months and twenty-five days." 



For tliis reading of the inscription, of which Hodgson gave a very 

 incorrect copy, we are indebted to Borghesi, who proposed it in Bull. 

 List. Archeol. for 1851, whence Henzen gives it in n. 6513. The only 

 part of it that seems liable to question, after examination of the woodcut 

 of Mr. Mossmaa's drawing, is cohortis 1 AugustcB Lusitanorum ; and yet 

 I have but little doubt that the reading is correct. Dr. Bruce's idea that 

 " we have in the inscription a trace of the Breuci at this station," is not 

 supported by examination of the words. Nor is his conjecture that " the 

 husband of Julia Lucilla was brought from Kome to superintend tbe 

 roads in this district," at all probable. We may, I think, reasonably 

 assume that the offices given after item were not held by him at the time 

 of his death or during his residence in Britain. He may have been, 

 at the time of his death, "{"prsefect of the first cohort of the Lusitani, 

 although we have no evidence that this corps was ever in Britain. And 

 yet I suspect that the office or offices that he held at that time were stated 

 in the upper part of the stone, and that he was Tribune of some other 

 cohort, perhaps I Vardulorum, for he seems to have been \ Bajinus, 

 the tribune, for the health of whom, and of his wife Lucilla, an altar 

 was erected at this station. See Horsley's n. xcvi, and Brit. Rom- 

 Inscrip., p. 140. The duties of curator vice and 'praifecliis alimenlorum 

 were united in one office. Henzen notices the rarity of the office of 

 subcurator, and cites Dig. Ill, 5, 30, for examples in inuniciina . 

 The deceased was subcurator vice Flaminice e.t alimentorum et operum 

 jmbUcormn certainly in Italy, and probably at Rome. Dr. Bruce's ex- 



f Tliere is no ground for Dr. Bruce's prccfecti; the word, expressing the com- 

 manding officer of both the cohorts, viz., of LusUani and Breuci, may just as well 

 have been iribunus. 



X In p. 393, Dr. Bruce's Roman AVall, 3rd edn., we also find Rufimts, the name 

 of the prefect of the ala called Augusta. This, possibly, may have been the same 

 person. The commanding officer of an auxiliary cohort is styled eiVtiQv prcefectus 

 or iribunus, but of an ala, prcafectus equiLum, or simply, but not usually, proefeclus. 

 There are examples, but extremely few, of iribunus being applied to the com- 

 manding oflicer of an ala. My conjecture that the name of the deceased was 

 RufinuR, and that he was tribune of the first cohort of the Varduli, seems to be 

 borne out by faint traces of letters in the upper part of the stone. 



