148 INSCRIPTIONES BRITANNIA LATINS. 



1865, this same inscription, as read by Horsley, was discussed, and 

 the same solutions of the principal difficulties were suggested : — 



" EX CC evidently stand for ex diccenario, and IMP most probably 

 for Imperatoris. It does not appear that any explanation of MEN 

 has been attempted : I regard it as standing for Mensor. If there 

 be a point after lY as well as after S, then Horsley's expansion — 

 exjussu susceptum — is correct, Init I am inclined to think that there 

 was none after IV, so that IVS stand for Jussu. But what of Con- 

 dati ? I think that the reference to Condate of the Itinerary is 

 highly probable, and would expand the word in the inscription into 

 Condatianis or Condatinis, i.e., Quintianus meoisor ex ducenario 

 Imperatoris ex jussit solvit lihens animo." 



See also Canadian Journal, xii., p. 126, where Muratori's and 

 Marini's expansions of the fifth line are noticed : — 



" The first proposes Mensor ex castris, or castrensihus Imperatoris^ 

 and the latter Mensor ex Circuitoribus ( Circitorihus). I adhere to my 

 own suggestion [i.e., ex ducenario^ as the most probable." We may 

 also remark that we prefer Deabus Matrihus Condatianis to Momm- 

 sen's Deo Mai'ti Condati, 



In n. 481 he gives the following inscription found at Hexham : — 



LEG. A 



Q. CALPVRNIVS 



CONCESSINI 

 VS- PRAEF- EQ 

 CAESA- COEI 

 ONOTOTAE, 



*VM MANV PE, 

 AESENTISSIMI 

 NVMINIS DEI VS 



This he expands — Leg(ati) A[ugusti pro prsatore\ Q. Calpurnius 

 Concessinius, ' prse/(ectus) eq{uitum'), caesa Corionototarum 7nanu, 

 pirsesentissimi numinis de\o\ v[otum) s{olvit), and remarks — Expli- 

 cationem vv. 5—9, Mommsenus repperit. In the Canadian Journal, 

 vol. iv., p. 175, 1859, this inscription, as i-ead by Horsley, was dis- 

 cussed, and the same solution of the difficulty, in vv. 5-9, proposed 

 soil, caesa Corionototarum manu, with the explanatory observations : 



" Calpurnius Concessinius, before going into action with a band of. 

 Corionototares, vowed to some god that, if successful, he would erect 

 an altar to him. Having cut them to pieces, he performed his vow 



