400 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
its proper place. In the second lne—QVINANAT— NANA is 
treated as a blunder of the stone-cutter, who inadvertently doubled 
the NA, i.e. the reading QVI* NAT[VS] is given instead of QVINA> 
NAT[VS]. Sooner than resort to this uncritical expedient, I prefer 
regarding QVINA as the cognomen,* even though I can produce no 
example of it. The letters are certainly in the position where the 
cognomen should be expected, scil. after the tribe. The translation of 
DECVBVIT—“ died ”’—is liable to the objection, that this is not the 
ordinary meaning of the word. Decuwmbere commonly means “to 
fall sick,” although there are examples of its gladiatorial application, 
“to fall in death.” It is not impossible, however, that it may be 
used here in the sense—“ he took to his bed and never left it alive.” 
The last two lines of the inscription,t as given by Mr. Smith, scil. 
DESIDER**** RIS: INT**** are restored thus: DESIDER 
-[AVIT: PAT]RIS: IN- T[VMVLO]; and to this is added, to 
complete the conjectural sense, but without a trace of authority on 
the stone, the word SEPELIRI. 
The objection here is to the Latinity of the phrase desideravit 
sepelirt. So far as I am aware, there is no authority for its use; and 
the appearance of it in an inscription would, in my judgment, at 
once suggest doubts of the correctness of the reading or of the genu- 
ineness of the inscription. 
It is not my intention to suggest any conjectural reading of the in- 
scription which we have been examining; it seems to be too far gone 
to be within the reach of hopeful critical treatment. I may be per- 
mitted, however, to observe, that the reading GALA[VAE], probably 
the modern Keswick, or GALA[TI],t the KaAarov of Ptolemy, is 
more probable than GALA[TIA]; and that the fragmentary words 
MORITV**** DESIDER**** may be more plausibly explained as 
intimating that the deceased pined and died from fretting for his 
distant or deceased father, mother, or brother, scil. desiderio patris, 
matris, or fratris. Thus we have in Henzen, n. 7378 :— 
* It has occurred to me, that perhaps the true reading is OVINA, a name, of which the 
first four letters are found in Mommsen, Jnscript. Neapol. u. 6811. 
+ In Gordon’s Itinerary, pl. 45, we find NON VA in a line under RIS INT. 
£ The mention of the place of death is so uncommon, that there was probabiy some spe- 
cial reason for notieing it here. Perhaps the resemblance of Galatum to Galatia was the 
cause. It has been identified with Galacum of the Itinerary. 
