398 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
* * * * TLSER * 
QVINANAT * * * 
GALATIA - DEC 
BVI! GALA SEs 
ROE ACNIING a eae 
MORITV * * * * * 
DESIDER ***** 
“This inscription is incorrectly given by Gordon, and Hodgson does not at-_ 
tempt to restore it. Two lines seem wanting at the beginning and one at the 
end. What is left may probably be read thus:—fILiuvs SERV2 QVI NATus 
GALATIA DECuwBVIT GALATIA viXIT ANNOS::MORITVrus DESIDER- 
avit patRIS IN Tumulo sepeliri ?” 
Mr. Wright (Celt, Roman, and Saxon, p. 320) gives the translation 
according to this reading :— 
«....IL SER _....son of Servius, 
QVI NANAT who born 
GALATIA DEC in Galatia ‘ 
BVIT GALA... died in Galatia; . 
NCEA NING) 25 He lived .. .. years ; 
MOREPV . 0.22). On his death-bed 
DESIDER ..... _ he desired 
RIS INT in his father’s tomb to be buried.” 
To this is subjoined the following note :-— 
“ The translation of this inscription is made after the ingenious restoration of 
Mr. Roach Smith, who (Ccllectanea, ii. p. 202) explains it, I believe correctly, as 
follows :—fILius SERovii QVI NATus GALATIA DECuBVIT GALATIA 
viXIT ANNOS...MORITVrus DESIDERavit patRIS IN Tumulo sepeliri. In 
the second line, NANAT appears to be an error of the stone-cutter for NAT.” 
In p. 319, Mr. Wright refers to this inscription in the following 
terms :— 
‘A broken inscription in one of the stations along the wall of Hadrian 
commemorates a native of Galatia, whose father having, as it appears, died in 
in;Britain, the son, who died in his native country, wished on his death-bed to 
be carried into Britain to be laid in his father’s grave.” 
This simple statement of the story, as it is told in the restored in- 
scription, manifests its improbability. It is not common, even now, 
with our increased facilities of transportation, for the bodies of the 
