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for Ciibicularii or Ducenarii. Of these the flatter seems to me the 

 more probable. See Orelli, nn. 3182, 3342, and my J Notes, Canadian 

 Journal, s, p. 96. We may now reasonably infer that we have the 

 genitive case, ducenarii, and we must find the word governing it. N 

 at once presents itself, used, as it not unfrequently is, for nomine. 

 HaUta then remains, which seems to form with prima statione an 

 ablative absolute. But what is the meaning of Beneficiarius Consularis 

 hahita nomine Ducenarii prima statione ? Statio is used not merely as a 

 military post, but also as the place where the payments to the emperors, 

 e. gr., of taxes and duties on legacies, were made to officers appointed 

 to collect them. See Henzen, nn. 6537, 6551, 6339. These stationes 

 were often under the charge of ducenarii, and sometimes henejiciarii 

 were appointed to discharge the duties. On this point Forcellini com- 

 presses much information in a few words. Hvjusmodi henejiciariis 

 militihus varia officia posterioribus temper ibus assignatafuisse leguntur. 

 Nam et exhibitio cursus publici et vectigalium exactio, reorum conqui- 

 sitic, et alia id genus munera iis demandabantur, ut est apud Tertidl^ 

 de fug. in persecut. c. pemdt. lib. 8. Cod. Theodos. til. 4 leg. 7, et Spar- 

 tian in Adrian, cap. 2 ubi vide quce adnotavit JSalmas. With regard, 

 then, to the words, Beneficiarius Consularis, nomine Ducenarii, statione, 

 there can, I think, be very little doubt as to their signification; but 

 the meaning of both prima and habita seems doubtful. The sense 



f Cuhicularii is recommended by its connexion with stationis primoa in the 

 examples that I have given from Henzen and Zaccaria, and also by another 

 noticed by Marini scil. a frumento cub. Ccesar. N. Stat. I, taken from an inscrip- 

 tion, which is given in full by Fabretti, p. 369. If we adopt this reading, a wide 

 field of speculation is opened out. Was this Cubicularius a chamberlain of the 

 emperor or a chamberlain of apartments for the sick ? If we take the first, then 

 prijna, statione may be interpreted with Marini, " ultima aniicamera," i. e., the 

 ante-room nearest to the emperor's apartment; and we can readily associate this 

 inscription with a supposed visit of an emperor, e. gr,, Hadrian, to the post at 

 Risingham. If we take the latter, we may suppose that there was a military hos- 

 pital at this post, and that prima statione is equivalent to our " first ward." The 

 interpretation that I have given above seems to me preferable to either of 

 these. 



X When I wrote the remarks to which reference has here been made, I was not 

 aware that the inscription was given by Mnratori, 895, 6, and noticed by Marini, 

 Atti Arvali, p. 297. The fii'st proposes Mensor ex castris or castrensibus Impera- 

 toris, and the latter Mensor ex Gircuitoribus, I adhere to my own suggestion 

 as the most probable. 



