FOUND IN BRITAIN. 127 



may be, having held or managed the tax-station, numbered as first; or 

 having held his first collection of taxes, i. e. having for the first time 

 discharged the duty, on behalf of the dicceiiarius, of collecting the 

 taxes. Nomine ducenarii seem to signify " in the name of the duce- 

 narius," rather than " with the name ducenarius." 



On the significations attributed to hahita, we may compare amhiiiose 

 avareque habitam Hispaniam in Tacitus, Annals, iii, 13, and the com- 

 mon comitils habitis, delectu habito. The use of prima with statio in 

 the sense numbered as " first,'' may be supported by stationis primas, 

 in the examples that I have given, but it must be borne in mind that 

 statio there seems to mean ante-room. Moreover the order of the terms 

 is different from that in the inscription. I know no example of statio 

 in the sense " collection of taxes," but I believe such a use of it to be 

 consistent with Latin usage, e. gr., such as that of tabulse, not for 

 '^registers," but for "registration." 



(?') In p. 350, an altar is figured, bearing the following inscription : 



NVM-AVG-ET 

 GEN. COH. I-F 

 VARDVLORVM 

 CREQ X SVBAlf" 

 TISTIO ADVENT 

 OLEG-AVG-PRP 

 F-TITIANYSTRIB 



" N'ummibiis Augusii et Genio Goh. I. FidcR Vardullorum civium Romanorum 

 eq. (X) suh Antisiio Advento Legato Augustali Pr. Pr. F. Tiiianus tribunus posuU. 

 To the deities of Augustus and the Genius of the first cohort, the faithful, of the 

 Varduli, consisting of Roman citizens, having cavalry, a thousand strong, under 

 the auspices of Antistius Adventus, imperial legate and proprsetor, Flavius Titia- 

 nus the tribune erected this altar." 



To this Dr. Bruce adds the following note : 



"Dr. McCaul, in the Canadian Journal for September, 1865, gives this inscrip- 

 tion, and says, ' I am persuaded that this stone was not found in England : from 

 Orelli, n. 1270, we learn that C. Antistius Adventus was legate in Germany.' 

 Dr. McCaul on this occasion certainly errs. In a letter to Roger Gale, dated l^tli 

 May, 1*735, Dr. Hunter, of Durham, says it was 'found lately at Lanchester, 

 within the ancient fortification, having its bottom broken off, and the initial letter 

 of the last two lines.' He further states, it was to be taken to Greencroft. 

 Hutchinson's Durham, vol. ii, p. 364. Hodgson, whose residence at Lanchester 

 made him peculiarly familiar with its antiquities, quotes this passage and says : 

 ' It is yet at Greencroft.' Poems, p. 99. It was removed from Greencroft to 

 Chesters two years ago." 



