244 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN: 
Thus no difficulty regarding the names of this Propretor remiains. 
In one his prenomen is given; in the other it is omitted, as is fre- 
quently the case. In the Vieux inscription (Mr. C. R. Smith’s 
Collectanea Antiqua, vol. iil. p. 95) the names of this. same Propre-: 
tor also appear without the prenomen.—-Compare the inscriptions! 
16a, 98, and 102a in Monum. Hist. Brit. 
But another inquiry remains as to the age of the slabs. Dr. Bruce 
remarks on this point: 
“The emperor here referred to is no doubt Heliogabalus. He assumed the 
same titles as Caracalla; but the character of the letters and the evidently in- 
tentional erasure of the distinctive part of his name, indicate the later rather than 
the earlier monarch. Fortunately the erasure in the second line has not been so 
effectually performed as to prevent the word ANTONINO being discernible.” 
Neither of the reasons given by Dr. Bruce seems to me conclusive 
evidence as to the emperor here referred to being Heliogabalus. 
Moreover, the examination of the date of the Vieux monument, by 
Mr. Roach Smith (Collect. Antig., iii. p. 98) does not favour this 
opinion. He observes : 
“This monument was erected in the first year of the reign of the third Gordian. 
[In the inscription on the principal face the date is given—AN.PIO ET 
PROCV L:COS—which corresponds to A.D. 288.] The events mentioned in the 
inscriptions probably occurred a considerable time anterior to the setting up of 
the monument. M. Huet and the Abbé le Neuf believe that the A‘dinius Julianus, 
prefect of the pretorium, whom Solennis went to Rome to see, and from whom 
he received this letter of recommendation |inscribed on the monument], is the 
Julianus mentioned by Herodian and Capitolinus, who held this high post in the 
time of Macrinus [i.e. before the commencement of the reign of Heliogabalis]. 
This was twenty years prior to the reign of Gordian, and as Julianus speaks of 
Paulinus as his predecessor in Gaul, Paulinus, in this case, must have been in 
Britain in the reign of Caracalla, possibly of Severus, when the sixth legion was 
in active service in the north of the island, repelling the Méate and the Caledo- 
nians.” 
In the opinion of M. Huet and the Abbé le Neuf I concur. It 
seems very improbable that the Julianus, who was prefect of the 
preetorium under Commodus, was the individual named on the monu- 
ment. I regard the Mdinius Julianus of the monument as most 
probably the same who is mentioned as M. Aidinius Julianus amongst 
the patroni of Canusium, in the well-known inscription (of the date 
A.D. 223) given by Mommsen, Inseript. Neapol., n. 635. 
