396 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
in that city. The fragments are figured in Warner’s History of Bath, 
pl. 1., fig. 7, and the words on them are thus read by the Rey. H. M. 
Scarth, Journal of British Archeological Association, 1857, p. 266: 
(1.) (2.) 
LAVDIVS : LIGVR OLEGIO‘LONGA:SERIA 
E- NIMIJA: VETVST VNIA : REFICI: ET -‘REPINGI: CVR 
e 
From these fragments Governor Pownall invented the following res- 
toration :— 
[AVLVS : CJLAVDIVS : LIGVR[IVS - SODALIS « ASCITVS 
FABRORVM - C]OLEGIO : LONGA * SERIA : [DEFOSSA 
HANC: AEDEM:JE: NIMIA: VETVST[ATE : LABENTEM 
DE: INVENTA : ILLIC : PEC]VNIA - REFICI - ET- REPINGI - 
CVR[AVIT*] 
The supplied words and letters I have placed between brackets [ ]. 
The idea of Claudius Ligurius beg a member of the College 
or company of smiths, was evidently suggested, as Mr. Scarth 
observes, by the inscription to Julius Vitalis, in which it is stated 
that he (Vitalis) was ex *colegio fabrice elatus. The objections to 
the use of the words—+sodalis ascitus fabrorum colegio—in the con- 
* It has been inferred from these words that there was a fabrica, i. e. a public factory of 
arms, in or near Bath, although the Wotitia, whilst noticing similar establishments in differ- 
ent parts of the empire, does not mention it. This, possibly, may have been the fact,. 
but it must be borne in mind, that as Vitalis was one of the fabri or fabricenses attached to 
the 20th legion, the collegiwm, who manifested their regard for him by a funeral at their 
expense, may have been the association of smiths or armourers in that legion. Thus in 
Orelli, n. 4922 we find mention of the collegia frumentariorum in the 8th and 13th legions. 
Elatus (Orelli, nn. 4715, 4716) denotes that the corpse was borne to the place of interment. 
on the shuulders—thus Horace, Sat. ii: 5:— 
Ex testamento sic est elata: cadaver 
Unctum oleo largo nudis humeris tulit heres. 
Tacitus, Ann. i., 8. Conclamant patres corpus ad rogum humeris senatorum ferendum. 
We may also infer that this was a walking funeral, the procession being formed of the 
members of the guild, who followed the body on foot. FABRICE may stand either for 
FABRICE[NSIVM]; or for FABRIC[AJE. Orelli, n. 4079, adopts the latter, referring it, 
however, to the fabrica of the legion. 
+ Governor Pownall seems to have attached undue importance to membership in a 
collegium fabrim. There were hundreds of such collegia or organizations of tradesmen, 
mechanics, and labourers of every class throughout the Roman Empire. The collegia fa- 
brum alone may be counted by dozens; and we are not without examples of collegia den-~ 
drophororum, mulionum et asinariorum, suariorum et confectuariorum, whose members 
respectively occupied positions in society about the same as English porters, waggoners, and 
pork-butchers. 
