146 INSCRIPTIONES BRITANNIA LATIN^E. 



Lysons' costly volumes, entitled Reliquise Britannico-Romanee, 

 contain no few but not all tlie inscriptions found in different parts of 

 the island, and they are chiefly valuable for the representations of 

 the remains of ancient art, such as pavements, &c. In Smith's Col- 

 lectanea Antigua, and Wright's " Celt, Roman and Saxon," we have 

 also some tituli that have been selected without regard to locality ; 

 but they are introduced merely amidst notices of other Roman remains. 

 In the Latin Inscriptions given in Monumenta Historica Britannica 

 there is no limitation as to the parts of the island in which they were 

 found, but the selection is not extensive (nor valuable to the student), 

 and '' is expressly confined to those only which bear upon general and 

 not upon particular history," whilst in " Britanno-Roman Inscrip- 

 tions," although not restricted to any particular locality, those alone 

 are treated, of which previous readings or interpretations were 

 regarded as unsatisfactory. The only general collections of Latin- 

 Inscriptions found in the island that have been published there or in 

 any part of the British Empire, so far as we are aware, are Horsley's 

 Britannia Romana in 1732, and Camden's Britannia, (originally 

 published by him 1586 to 1607,) translated and enlarged hj 

 Gough in 1806 ; but these works, however excellent, are not exclu- 

 sively devoted to Epigraphy, so that in Professor Hiibner's volume we 

 have, for the first time collected, all the Latin inscriptions found in 

 Britain, on all the varieties of material on which they were cut 

 or stamped or scratched. The work is designated " Inscriptiones 

 Britannise Latinas," and forms the seventh volume of the Corpus 

 Inscriptionum Latinarum, published at Berlin under the auspices of 

 the Prussian Royal Academy of Letters. It is edited by Professor 

 Hiibner, already well known to all engaged in Epigraphic studies, 

 especially by his most valuable '■'Indices " to the first volume of the 

 Corpus, containing Inscriptiones Latinos antiquissimce, and also by his 

 edition of the Inscriptiones Hispanice Latince. In the preparation of 

 his work, this laborious scholar has spared neither time nor trouble,, 

 and twice visited various parts of the island with the object of exam- 

 ining for himself the originals. It is very gratifying to observe in 

 his prefatory observations the kindly remembrance that he cherishes 

 of the courtesies extended to him during his stay in Great Britain 

 by " Babington, Bruce, Clayton, Coxe, Dixon, Franks, Kenrick, Lee, 

 Lottner, Mayor, Miiller, Munro, Murray, ISTettleship, ISTewton, Pat- 

 tison, PoUexfen, Scarth, Stuart, Thompson, Way, Woodford, Wright, 



