NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 245 
47. In the Journal of the Archeological Institute, n. 67, 1860; 
p: 270; a tile from Caerwent is figured, which bears the name 
BELLICIANVS, four times written, in “what may be called the cur- 
sive hand.[?] of the British Romans. The name Belicianus (with a 
single 7) occurs on one of the tomb-stones from Bulmore, near Caer- 
leon, and may possibly refer to the same individual.” 
To these observations of Mr. J. K. Lee, the following remarks are 
subjoined : 
““The sepulchral stone found at Bulmore, to which Mr, Lee refers, is figured in 
his Delineations of Roman Antiquities found at Caerleon, pl. xxiv. p. 87. Tt 
bears an inscription in memory of Julia Veneria; it was erected by Alesander 
(sic) her husband and Julius Belicianus her son, The upper part of the stone 
forms a pediment, on which a dolphin is sculptured. The names Bellicius, Belli- 
cinus, Beelicus, and also Bellianus, Bellienus, d&e., occur in inscriptions given by 
Gruter, Bellienus was the name of a family of the Annia gens; Bellicianus 
may have been a name derived from that of the town in Gaul, of some note in 
Cesar’s campaign against the Allobroges, Bellicium, or Belica, now known as 
Belley. It is situated about forty miles E. of Lyons.” 
I am unable to consult Mr. Lee’s work, as above referred to ; but 
the inscription, which is cited, is the same as that given in Mr. 
Wright’s Celt, Roman, and Saxon, p. 315: 
“D. M To the gods of the shades. 
IVLIA: VENERI Julia Veneria, 
A: AN: XXXTE aged thirty-three years, 
I: ALESAN: CON Alexander, her husband 
PIENTISSIMA most attached, 
ET:I-BELICIANVS and Julius Belicianus 
F-MONIME her son, this monument 
FC eaused to be made.”’ 
With this reading and translation I am by no means satisfied. The 
I at the beginning of the third line seems to me to be not a numeral, 
to be joined to XXXII in the preceding line, but the ordinary nota 
for Julius, scil. “ Julius Alewander.’ ‘Her husband most attached ” 
is evidently a casual slip, as a translation of CON[IVGI] PIENTIS- 
SIMA[E], which, of course, means “to his most attached wife.” 
The name BELICIANVS may perhaps be nothing more than the 
ordinary cognomen FELICIANVS, the B being used for F. MO- 
NIME is so strange an abbreviation of MONIMENTUM, that it 
excites suspicion as to the correctness of the reading. I venture to 
suggest—M *OPTIME,—7.e. M[ATRI] OPTIM[A]E. According 
