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Orelli, and copied from them by me, has ever been found in England. 

 If I had seen, or could have consulted the authorities cited by Dr. 

 Bruce, viz., Hutchinson and Hodgson, I should, of course, have formed 

 and expressed a different opinion.* I searched all the books to which 

 I had access, where I might expect to find some account of the inscrip- 

 tion, viz., Horsley's Britannia Romana^ Camden's Britannia, ed. 

 Gough, Monumenta Historica Britannica, Dr. Bruce's Roman Wall, 

 2nd edition, Mr.Wright's Celt, Roman & Saxon, and various periodicals, 

 but I could discover no trace of it — not even of the name C. Antistius 

 Adventus — in the lists of Grovernors of Britain. My examination on 

 the subject was the more strict, as I suspected that a person named 

 Antistius Adventus had been in the island, otherwise I could not ac- 

 count for the suggestion (in Monum. Hist. Brit., Index, p. cxlvi.) of 

 these names as a reading for those of the person f now ascertained to 



* In some cases Dr. Bruce seems to have overlooked authorities that might 

 easily have been consulted. In p. 390 we find the statement : — " Mr. Roach Smith 

 suggests to the writer that the deity associated with Jupiter is V[V]LKANVS, 

 Vulcan." This is no new suggestion. The same view was taken in 1848 by the 

 Editor of the 3Ionumenta Historica Britannica, n. 24 6, and before that by the 

 Rev. Mr. Mathews, in the Gentleman' sM agazine for 1842, p. 598. A more remark- 

 able instance occurs in thp note, p. 112, where Dr. Bruce remarks : — " After much 

 consideration, the author is, at length, constrained to adopt the views of Dr. 

 Musgrave and of Henzen, and to read [V"V' applied to the 20th legion] Valeria, 

 Victrix. The following examjjles seem decisive. Dion Cassius, speaking of this 

 legion being then i,n Britain, denominates them OvaX'spsioi Kai 'Ntj.u^Topsc; and 

 in the continuation of Orellius by Henzen, Nos. 6680, 68*71, we have Valerice 

 Victric. and ValericeVictricis." Dr. Bruce is mistaken as to Musgrave's opinion: 

 it was, that the first V stood for Valeriana, not Valeria ; and Henzen has not 

 discussed the subject. In his Index he gives Valeria Victrix, as a matter of 

 course, for no living Epigraphist on the continent of Europe, so far as I am 

 aware, has given any other expansion for V. V. in connexion with the 20th legion. 

 The passage from Dion Cassius, in illustration of the titles, has often been cited; 

 and the reference to Henzen's nn. 6680, 6871, in which the epithets are in 

 extenso, was first given by me in note p. 4, Brit. Rom. Inscrip., where I have 

 briefly discussed the subject in explanation of my rejection of the reading Valens 

 Victrix adopted by Orelli, Horsley and Bruce. 



f I may, I trust, be pardoned for expressing my gratification that my conjec- 

 tural reading — Oclatinio — has been found to be correct on re-examination 

 of the stone. The only doubt that now remains is as to the group of tied letters 

 between and 0, after Vangon. I adhere to the opinion that I expressed rela- 

 tive to them, merely changing operihus perfectis into opere perfeeto, as the last 

 letter has been proved to be 0, not S as it was formerly given. Is there any 

 trace of the tail of R under the P ? If so, the group will comprehend all the 



