FOUND IN BRITAIN. 125 



pansion of CF — curavit fieri — is not correct. The letters stand for 

 Claris&ima femina, and are not found elsewhere, so far as I recollect, 

 in a British inscription. 



(Ji) In p. 332, the altar is figured that bears the inscription, from 

 "which it was inferred that the ancient name of Risingham was Habitan- 

 cum. I have treated the subject in the note, p. 147, Brit. Rom. Inscrip., 

 and I now take it up again in consequence of a new reading- of the text 

 given in Dr. Bruce's copy. The following is the inscription as given 

 by him : 



MOGONTCAD 



ET-N-D-NAVG 



M-GSECVNDINVS 



BF-COSHABITA 



NCCIPPJMASTAT 



PROSEETSVISPOS 



Dr. Bruce expands and translates it thus : 



^^ Deo 3Iof/onti Cadenorum et Numini Domini Nostri Augusti Marcus Gains 

 Secundinus Beneficiarius Consulis Hahitanci prima statione pro se et suis posuit. 

 To the god Mogon of the Gadeni, and the deity of our Lord Augustus, Marcus 

 Gains Secundinus, a consular beneficiary at Habitancum, the first station from 

 the Wall (?), erected this for himself and his family," 



The objections to this expansion, which is the same as that given by 

 Horsley, are, that there is no authority for Habitancum as the name of 

 a place in Britain, and that we should have had primce stationis, i. e., 

 PRIMAE, not PRIMA. To these must be now added, that in the 

 fifth line the letters are CCI, not CI. This difierence seems to me so 

 important, that I do not hesitate, on this ground alone, to reject all 

 previous expansions and interpretations, including that which I doubt- 

 fully suggested in Brit. Rom. Inscrip., p. 147; but it is by no means 

 easy to determine the true explanation of the unusual forms found 

 here. The following inscriptions will, I think, help us in arriving at 

 the meaning: Et plehei collegi Concordice August ianorum familice 

 castrensis Alexander Marcellianus et Encolphius Domitianus Cubiculari 

 stationis primse D. D. Ilenzen, n. 7191. JElio Aug. lib. Glauco 

 Cubiculario stationis primge. Zaccaria, Istituzione antiquo-lapid. p. 329. 



L. Vibio Fortunalo L Haruspici Aug. N. Magistro a studiis 



Proc. Ducenario Stationis liereditatium. Mommsen., Inscrijp. Neapcl. 

 n. 3948» See also Gruter, 575, 3, and de off. D. A. L. iii, 29, cited 

 by Marini, Atti Arvat. 504, a. It appears, then, that CCI may stand 



