NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 237 
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FL: HELIVS NATI 
ONE GRECVS VI 
XIT ANNOS XXXX 
FL: INGENVA CO 
NIVGI POSVIT 
It is thus interpreted :—‘ To the divine shades,—Flavius Helius, a 
Greek by nation, lived forty years. The free-born Flavia erected this 
stone to her husband.” 
I cannot perceive any reason for rejecting the obvious interpretation 
of Ingenua as a cognomen. It is not rare: Mommsen (Inscript. 
Neapol.) furnishes séveral examples. 
41. In p. 6 we have the inscription that formed the subject of 
article 20 of my notes :— 
L*-SEMPRONI: FLA 
VINI: MILTIS - LEGVIIII 
* ALAVDI SEVERI 
AERVITANORXXX 
ISPANICA LERIA 
CIVMA 
The reading and interpretation of the third line, which seem to be 
most favourably received by the Messrs. Trollope, are the same as 
those which I suggested ; but a preference is expressed for ISPANI - 
GALERIA, instead of ISPANICA: LERIA. It is remarkable that 
when I first saw the inscription, this reading suggested itself to me; 
but although recommended by the circumstance that the Galerian 
tribe was common amongst the Spaniards (Henzen, n. 5598), I re- 
jected it on the ground, that there is no example, so far as I am 
aware, of such a position of the tribe, not only after the birth-place, 
but also after the years of age and of service. But the existence of 
Leria,.as a town of Hispania.Tarraconensis, seems to be questioned, 
apparently onthe ground that it is “not found in Dr. Smith’s Dic- 
tionary ot Roman Geography.” There can be no doubt, howeyer, 
that. it did exist : 1t is mentioned by Ptolemy, cited. by Cellarius, 
i. p. 106. 
The readings civis [or civitate] maximi exempli for CIVMA seem 
to me very.improbable. I prefer my own suggestion—C + IVNIA 
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