232 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
serving in Britain in A.D. 104, and the first in A.D. 105-106; whilst 
Hadrian’s diploma notices the second in A.D. 124. According to 
the Wotitia, the second was stationed at Congavata (Burgh-upon- 
Sands’); and the fourth at Segedunum (Wallsend), near which an 
altar has been found (Bruce, Roman Wall, p. 85), erected by a 
Preefect of that corps. 
Horsley (Durham, xv.) gives the followmg inscription (on a stone 
also found at Lanchester), which Dr. Bruce (Roman Wall, p. 461) 
regards as mentioning the first, not the second, cohort of the Lin- 
gones :— 
GENIO PRAETORI 
CL EPAPHRODITVS 
CLAVDIANVS 
TRIBVNVS CHO 
I LING VLPM 
t.e. Genio Preetoru* Claudius Epaphroditus Claudianus} Tribunus 
cohortis prime Lingonum votum libens posuit merito. 
Dr. Bruce (p. 460) figures a slab, found at High Rochester, which 
bears the inscription :— 
IMP: CAES: T- AELIO 
HAD: ANTONINO: AVG: PIO PP 
SVB Q LOL VRBICO 
LEG: AVG PRO PRAE | 
COH I LING 
_ Dr. Bruce gives equitum as the expansion of E Q; but the letters 
evidently stand for equitata—a contraction, of which there are many 
* Horsley strangely interprets—Genius the pretor ; and the Index to the inscyiptions in 
Monum. Hist. Brit. gives “Genius pretor?” There canbe no doubt that pretorii ig 
correct. 
+ Camden and Horsley regarded the cohort, which is named here, as the second, but I 
prefer Dr. Bruce’s opinion. An objection to my reading—Prefectus cohortis prime Lingo- 
num Gordiane—may be drawn by some from the designation of the commanding officer 
being here tribunus, net prefectus : but there is no doubt that both terms are applied to 
the commanding officer of the same auxiliary cohort. Im the Notitia, the second and 
fourth of the Lingones are each under a ¢tribunus, whilst it appears, from inscriptions on 
stones found in Britaip, that they were each under a prefectus. 
