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have been Oclatinius Adventus. "Wlien I failed in finding any trace 

 in Britain of Antistlus Adventus, I of course turned to the records of 

 other countries, and soon found that a person of this name, mentioned 

 in Orelli's n. 1270, had been legate of Augustus and Proprsetor in 

 Germany or Gaul. As I have adverted to the difficulties that I encoun- 

 ter in treating inscriptions found in Britain, I may be permitted to 

 observe that I have never seen the originals, and have been able to 

 get but few rubbings. or photographs, so that in examining unsatis- 

 factory readings or interpretations, (and my notes are limited almost 

 exclusively to such cases), I have usually to find out or conjecture the 

 true reading from the illustrations or printed copies, or comments of 

 authors, who often failto give correct representations of the originals, 

 sometimes from accidental mistakes in copying, but not unfrequently 

 from imperfect acquaintance with epigraphic language and forms, or 

 even from want of common knowledge of ordinary Greek or Latin. 



(Jc) The use of the preposition suh with Consulihus, in the sense 

 " under," or " in the year of," is well known. So also is its use with 

 Legato Augusti, and in the tabulce Tionestce missionis, in the sense 

 "under the command of." Dr. Bruce, I know not why, varies the 

 translation of the preposition. In p. 16, we have " under the direction 

 of;" in p. 350, "under the auspices of;" in p. 322, "under the 

 authority of;" and in p. 114, "through the influence of" There is 

 not one of the things mentioned in those pages, in which the legate 

 seems in any way to have interfered. " Under" seems quite sufficient 

 as a translation, and, if it should be desirable to add to this, " serving 

 under " may be used in those cases in which military bodies or persons 

 are named. 



(T) In p. 373, we find the following statement relative to Roman 

 remains found at Papcastle : — 



" Another altar has more recently beea found, bearing a similar date, 

 and dedicated by a Niimerus Frisionum Aballavensium, a designation 

 which it is exceedingly diflBcult to comprehend." The difficulty, to 

 which Dr. Bruce refers, is not as to the meaning of the words, for they 

 plainly signify " the detachment of Frisiones stationed at Aballava." 

 The Frisii, or Frisiones, regarded by some as identical with the Frista- 

 nones or Frisiavones or Friscevones or Frixagi, are well known as a 

 portion of the Roman auxiliary troops in Britain. The 1st cohort was 



letters required— PERE and PERFECT — by taking the semicircular part of the 

 P (or R) as representing C. 



