NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 239 
1: VALERIVS :1:F 
CLA: PVDENS:SAV:- 
MIL: LEG: II:A:P°F: 
>: DOSSENNI 
PROCVLI: A: XXX 
AERA « I D:SP 
H:S:k 
“The following reading of the inscription may be suggested—Julius (or Titus) 
Valerius, Julii (or Titi) filius, Claudia (¢ribu), Pudens, Savia, miles legionis II: 
Augustw (or adjutricis) piz, fidelis, centuriz Dossenni Proculi, annorum xxx, 
zerum ii, de sua pecunia hoe sibi fecit (or hic situs est.)” 
The appearance of the letters on the stone, as figured in the 
Journal, leads me to regard Titus as more probable than Julius. I 
also prefer adjutricis and hic situs est. For de sua pecunia, | would 
suggest de suo peculio (Orelli, n. 5553) ; and for centurie@, centurid, 
as the usual construction seems to have been—the legion, cohort, or 
ala in the genitive, and the century or troop in the ablative. Thus 
in Renier nn. 3938, 3939, centuria and turma are given in extenso. 
On p. 17, the observation of Mr. Franks on this inscription is cited : 
“Tt records Julius Valerius Pudens, son of Julius, of the Claudian tribe, and a 
native of Savia, a city in Spain; he appears to have been a soldier of the second 
legion, and of the century of Dossennus Proculus, and to have lived thirty years, 
two of them as a pensioner.” 
The tribe, being the Claudian, leads me to prefer (both here and in 
Gruter, 547, 10) Savaria, a town in Pannonia. Vide Reinesius, 
ch. viii. n. 5, and Orelli, n. 500. The interpretation, ‘‘ two of them 
as a pensioner,” is liable to the objections, that there is no number on 
the stone, which can be clearly read, and that there is no authority 
for “a pensioner.’”” Iam not sure that I correctly understand the 
use of the term by Mr. Franks, but if his meaning be, that Julius 
Valerius Pudens received pay for two years, as some of our discharged 
soldiers receive pensions, he has not at all expressed the sense of the 
Latin. The phrase AERA MERVIT means the same as STIPEN- 
DIA MERVIT, i.e. served [the stated number of] years. 
But it is more important to notice the construction of the 
word in this inscription. Instead of AERVM we have AERA, 
for the last letter seems to be A. The number is so obliterated that 
it appears scarcely possible to propose a certain restoration ; but per- 
