INSCRIPTIONES BRITANNIA LATINS. 153 



We now proceed to give some examples of solutions or remarks 

 -offered by Professor Hiibner that we regard as unsatisfactory. 



In n. 324: we have a copy of an inscription found at Plump ton 

 Wall :— 



II-GAL AMPI 



SVB CALVISIO- RV.... 

 CVRANTE AVRELIO. 



Hiibner remarks on the second line, " Calvisius Ru,[/u,s ?] videtur 

 esse legatus provincias aliunde non notus." We arrived independently 

 at the same conclusion as to the rank of the officer, but we are 

 disposed to supply SONE as the missing letters after RV, i.e., sub 

 Calvisio Eusone, for it is possible that he may be the Calvisius 

 Ruso, mentioned in Gruter's Ixiv., 9, as colleague of L. Ceesemiius 

 [ Caesonius] Peetus. Thus he may be regarded as suffectus in place of 

 Petronius Turpilianus, who had resigned his Consulship, and was 

 subsequently sent as legate to Britain. If this identification be 

 correct, his administration of the government of the island may be 

 placed immediately before or after Sallustius Lucullus, noticed in 

 Suetonius' Domitian, c. 10. AMPI (on which Hiibner offers no 

 remark) we regard as part of TAMPIANA (or TAMPIANAE) 

 9cil. ala Tampiana mentioned in Trajan's diploma of A.D. 104. 



In n. 97 is a copy of an inscription, on which there has been much 

 discussion. Hiibner reads it thus : — 



for TVNE ET BOXO EVE 

 NTO CORNELI- CASTVSETIVL 

 BELISMIVS- CONIVGES 

 PO sve R 



i.e., \For^tune et Bono Evento Corneli{us) Casfus ef Jul{ia) Belis- 

 mius conjuges pos{ue)r{unt). His view is that Belismius is the name 

 of a female as Vallaunius in another inscription found in the same 

 place, and he remarks : — nam quanquam formam in — ua profeminino 

 usurpari alibi nonduni quod sciam repertum est, famen nee de formis 

 per compendium scriptis Belismius(a) Vallaunius(a) cogitari potest 

 neque alia suppetit explieatio certa." Hiibner seems to have forgotten 

 that Marini, Atti de fratelli Arvali, i., p. 331, (cited in " Britanno- 

 Roman Inscriptions," p. 129,) gives the following examples of mascu- 

 line cognomina of females: — -"Aelia Demetrus, Cassia Mus, Jiilia 

 Barachus, Mucia Antiochus, Calidia Antiochus, Clodia Optatus, 

 Acilia Carnus, Sallustia Helpidus, Flavia Chrysophorus." No 



