240 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
haps in this injured portion of the stone there was, besides the 
number, M standing for merwt. 
I have pleasure in adding, that the Messrs. Trollope are the first, 
go far as I am aware, who have noticed the ascia in Britanno-Roman 
epigraphy. 
44. In p. 19, we find the expansion,—Hic ex testamento positus (?)” 
for H:E:TEST:P. I prefer “ Heres ex testamento posuit,” the 
heir being the veteran named in the sixth line. This inscription is of 
much interest, as supplying another notice of the 14th legion. The 
only other stone found in Britain, which mentions this celebrated corps, 
is that dug up at Wroxeter, and now in the Library of the Grammar 
School at Shrewsbury, on which see Notes, p. iv. n. 14. 
45. In p.19, a stone is noticed which was found at Lincoln, during 
the early part of last year. 
“ The inscription, which is perfect, may be thus read :— 
DIIS: MANIB 
C-IVLI GAL 
CALEN:F LVC 
VET EX LEG: VI 
VIC: PF NASEMF 
“The person here commemorated may have been Caius Julius, of the Galerian 
tribe, son of Calenus, a native of Lucca (?), and a veteran of the sixth legion, 
styled Victrix, pia, fidelis(?). The concluding letters are inaccurately formed, 
and their import is obscure. Nepos a suo bene merenti fecit, has been proposed, 
but we confess our inability to offer any satisfactory explanation. The sixth 
legion, however, it must be observed, was styled firma and ferrata, which may 
suggest the more correct reading. It is doubtful whether it was ever styled 
pia, fidelis. 
_ The inscription, although apparently plain, and moreover accurately 
represented in a woodcut prepared with great care from a photograph, 
presents more than ordinary difficulty. The objections to the read- 
ings, proposed by Messrs. Trollope, for the first three lines, are: that 
C. Julius has no cognomen—that the normal arrangement of the 
name of the father and the tribe is inverted—and that the sixth 
letter in the third line seems clearly to be I, not F. 
1 am inclined to suggest the following expansion:—Diis Manibus 
Cai Juli, Galeria tribu, Caleni, (or Galeni.), Lugduno, i.e. of Caius 
Julius Calenus, (or Galenus), of the Galerian tribe, a native of Lugdu- 
num. The only objection, worth noticing, which I see. to this, is,. 
that in the woodcut there is a mark resembling a point between N 
