NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 241 
and I; but it seems probable to me that the mark is the result of 
injury or of age. It is remarkable that there is a similar mark be- 
tween L and I, in the fifth line of the inscription noticed in the pre- 
ceding article. 
LVG is a common abbreviation for Lugdunum, and in that city the 
Galerian appears to have been the ordinary tribe. Vide Horsley, Brit. 
Rom., Monmouthshire, n. 111, and Orelli, n. 4020 
But the principal difficulty remains for consideration. To the 
reading of the last line, 
‘VIC: PF NASEMF 
the Messrs. Trollope suggest the serious objections, that PIA FIDE- 
LIS can scarcely be accepted as an expansion of P* F, as it is doubt- 
ful whether the sixth legion was ever styled pia, fidelis ; and that the 
concluding letters are so inaccurately formed, and their import so 
obscure, that they are unable to offer any satisfactory explanation. 
Let us first consider the question as to the application of the epithets 
pia fidelis to the sixth legion. Henzen certainly seems to have been 
of the opinion that this legion was not styled pia fidelis, for, in his 
index, whilst giving other titles, he omits mentioning these, and cor- 
rects two inscriptions in which those letters are found in connexion 
with the sixth. In his emendations I concur, for the use of CLAVD: 
in each of these cases shows that LEG: VII was intended ; but the 
opinion that P:F, standing for pia fidelis were never applied to 
LEG: VI, may be refuted by several examples. In Britain, omitting 
some instances which may be questioned, we find examples in North- 
umberland, n. xliv. ; Cumberland, nn. xxiv. and xlii.; and Westmore- 
land, n. vi., of Horsley’s Collection. In Stuart’s Caledonia Romana, 
p- 349, we find an inscription in which the words pie fidelis, applied. 
to the sixth, are almost in extenso. Again, in Bruce’s Roman Wall, 
pp- 270 and 274, we have other examples of the application of P* F. 
Nor is the usage limited to Britain. Steiner, n. 611; Lersch, 
C. Mus. i. p. 14; and Dureau de Lamalle, Annal. dell’ Inst. Arch. 
iv. 1832, p. 151, supply examples found on the continent. 
In Bruce’s Roman Wall, p. 250, we have fidelis in extenso ; and 
in Mommsen’s Inscrip. Neap., n. 2852, ‘‘fidel.,”’ but in both cases 
without “ pia.” 
As it has now, I conceive, been established, that P: F in the last 
line of the inscription under consideration should be read pia fidel, 
we may proceed to the last letters, read by the Messrs. Trollope as 
NASEMF. The ligulate form, read by them as NA, seems to me to 
