150 INSCRIPTIONES RRITANMI^ LATIK/E. 



contrary, some sucli terms as MYRO PERFECTO PRAE- 

 SIDIISQVE." 



In nn. 1072, 1073 are copies of two inscriptions found at Birrens, 



Blatum Btdgiuni ;— 



(a) DEAE RICAGM 



BEDAE PAGVS 

 VELLAVS MILIT 

 OOH Tl TVNG 



vslm 



{h) BEAB VIRADES 



THI PAGVS COK 

 BRVSTISJkllLIt 

 IN OOH II TVN 

 GRO SVB SlLV(i)0 

 aVSPICE PR 

 AEP. 



Hiibner expands tlie fii'st— Dece Ricagarribedm pagus Veltaus milit" 

 (ans) coh{orte) ii Tun[grorum) v{otuni) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito), and 

 the second-— i)ea3 Viradesthi pagus Condrustis milit{ans) in coh(orte) 

 a Tungroirum) sub Sih{i)o (A)u^pice praef{ecto) [fecit]. On the 

 second and third lines of (a), he remarks : — Pagus Vellatis militans 

 positus est cum aliqua audacia pro paganis Vellavis militantihus in 

 cohorte. Cf. n. 1073. Ricagamheda tutdaris potest fuisse pagi ejus 

 Tungrorum. On the second and third lines of (b) he also remarks: — 

 Cum pago Condrusti contulit Germanos ex Cossare notos (bell. Gall. 

 2, ^, 10. 4, 6, 4. 6, 32, 1), C. F, Hermannus. Gotting. gel. Anz. 

 1846, p. 1415. In these expansions and remarks we concur, but 

 Hiibner was not the first that proposed the explanations. 



In the Canadian Journal, vol. iii., p. 14, 1858, the same views are 

 taken, w^ith the sole exception of Ricagmabeda for Ricoginnbeda, 

 and the following translations in accordance with them are given : — » 



(a) ^' To the goddess Ricagmabeda the Vellavian district (i.e., the 

 men from that district) serving in the second Cohort of the Tun , 

 grians," &c. 



(b) "To the goddess Yiradesthi (or Yiradethi) the Condrusian 

 district (i.e., the men from that district) serving in the second 

 Cohort of the Tungrians, under the command of Silvius Auspex 

 Pra;fect." 



In the two examples that we subjoin, there is in addition a 

 remarkable misstatement of fact. In n. 830 we have a copy of an 

 inscription found at Birdoswald, Amboglanna : — 



