128 NOTES OF LATIN INSCRIPTIONS 



The following is tlie passage in the Canadian Journal, to wMeli 



reference is made in the preceding note : 



" Found at Lancliester, Durham, according to Mus. Ver. ccccxlv., 9, and Orelli, 



Inscrip., n. 3403. 



NVM-AVG^T 



GEN-COH-n 



VARDVLORVM 



C-R-EQ-M-SVB-AN 



TISTIO ADVEN 



TOLEG-AVG- PR- PR- 



* * « TIANYS TRIE 



{. e., Numini Augusti et Oenio Cohortis secundce Vardulorum civium Romano- 

 rum Equitatce. 3Iiliarice sub Antistio Advento Legato Augusti Pro Prceiore — tianus 

 Tribimus. 



I am persuaded that this stone was not found in England. From Orelli, n. 

 12Y0, we learn that C. Antistius Adventus was legate in Germany." 



Dr. Bruce's statement as to my view is positive, but surprisingly in- 

 accurate. He seems not to have observed that the inscription as given 

 by me from Orelli is not identical with that given by him from the 

 stone that is now at Chesters. They differ in this very important par- 

 ticular, that in mine the cohort is the second, in his tbe first. Now 

 my opinion was almost wholly based on this difference. If Maffei's 

 and Orelli's copies bad given COH • I • VAKDVLORVM, I should 

 have unhesitatingly accepted their statement that this stone was found 

 at Lanchester, for I knew that the first cohort of the Varduli had been 

 in Britain (see Brit. Rom. Inscrip. pp. 139, 157, 160, 161), although 

 I could discover no trace (on '* stones) of the second having served 

 there. I thought of emending II by reading I - F •, ^. e., prima fida, 

 but in both Maffei's and Orelli's copies the characters II were dis- 

 tinct, and the latter, moreover, placed a line over II, i. e., II, clearly 

 indicating the second. Moreover, I found that Maffei's reading 

 COH - II • had been accepted by Marini, Atti. Arval. p. 22, and Car- 

 dinali, Diplomi, p. 157. My persuasion, then, as stated in the Cana- 

 dian Journal, is confirmed, not disproved, by Dr. Bruce's copy of the 

 original, for no stone, bearing the inscription as given by Maffei and 



* In Trajan's Diploma, A. D. 106, the second (if the reading of the Monu- 

 menta Historica Britannica be correct) is mentioned as at that time serving in 

 Britain, but no other memorial of it, so far as I know, has been found in the island, 

 and I venture to suggest that the number in the plate is I not II. I cannot 

 accept, with any confidence, the authority of that volume on epigraphic points. 



