NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 235 
monthly meeting in October. Mr, Kenrick, Curator of Antiquities, 
*‘ called the attention of the members to the inscription on the inonu- 
ment of Flavia Augustina, discovered at the Mount, near York,” and to 
the suggestion (which I offered in article 21) as to the letter I before 
LEG: being part of the abbreviation PRI., “ This may have stood,” 
the Report proceeds, “either for Princeps or Primipilaris, examples 
of both occurring in inscriptions. The latter is perhaps the more 
probable. * * * The monument in question, though coarse in 
execution, must have been costly, and we may conclude that Caeresius, 
who dedicated it to the memory of his wife and children, was a per- 
son of higher military rank than a common soldier.”’ In articles 17 . 
and 21 of my notes, I expressed a preference for princeps as the 
reading of PRI-; and on reconsideration of the subject, I see no 
reason for altering my opinion. It seems to me very improbable that 
the same contraction was used for the designations of two high officers 
of different rank; andthe enquiry as to the meaning of PRI- ap- 
pears to be no more than a search for a case in which the abbreviation 
certainly denotes either of them. If such be found, then it may, I 
think, be reasonably concluded that it was not used for the other. 
Now there is no example, so far as I am aware, which proves that 
PRI was ever used for primipilus; whilst PRI: PRI: in Orelli, 
n. 3451 (af that inscription be genuine) establishes the use of it for 
princeps. Moreover, in my notes on the subject, I had no reference 
to princeps, as ‘‘a common soldier,”’ one of the principes, but to prin- 
ceps as the designation of the chief centurion of the principes, and 
the second in rank of the centurions in a legion, for, as Vegetius, ii. 8, 
informs us, Vetus autem consuetudo tenuit, ut ex primo principe 
legionis promoveretur centres primi pili. This use of princeps, as 
“the” princeps, not ‘‘a” princeps, is not uncommon. In Henzen, 
n. 6779, we have an aes of an officer, who was— 
PRIM: PIL 
LEG: V-ET LEG: X-:ET LEG: VI:‘ITA: VT: IN 
LEG: X PRIMVM PIL- DVCERET EODEM 
TEMPORE: PRINCEPS: ESSET LEG: VI 
Vide also n, 6747. 
In 6780 and 6781 we find the princeps of an auxiliary cohort in 
two inscriptions found in Britain : 
