154 INSCRIPTIONES RRITANNI^ LATINjE, 



explanation of the above inscription ttat has been offered seems to 

 us satisfactory, nor is Hiibner's suggestion an exception. "We are 

 now inclined to propose the view, tliat Castus and Belismius were 

 eonjiiges of one wife, the divorced of one, or possibly of both of them- 

 See in Orelli, n. 2660, an epitaph by two husbands to a deceased 

 wife. 



In n. 731 we have a copy of an inscription found at Great 

 Chesters, in which the titles Parthici and Medici are found, evidently 

 denoting M. Aurelius and Verus. Hiibner from this infers that the 

 date is 162-168, A.D. It is impossible that 162 can be one of the 

 cancelli of the date, for these two Emperors did not take these two 

 titles imtil 166 A.D. Again, in n. 513 the date 205-208 is given, 

 but if we assume that the Victoria Augustoi'um (AYGG) refers to 

 the expedition of Severus and Caracalla into Caledonia, as it most 

 probably does, we may assign the inscription to 208, or 209 before- 

 Geta was made Aiigustus in the latter year. 



In n. 1222 the inscription on a tile found at Caerleon is given, 

 in which the letters II AVG are certain, but they are followed by a 

 monogram, on the reading and meaning of which different opinions 

 have been proposed. On this Hiibner remarks : — " Lee, delineations, 

 p. 21, /sea, p. 43, adn., uhi nexum aut MVT aut MAT aut MANT 

 significari stituitur." On reference to Lee's Isca, pp. 43, 44, we find 

 the following note on this inscription : — 



"The Rev. J. McCaul, LL.D., of Toronto, kindly communicated 

 the following note, which doubtless is the correct reading of the 

 stamp : — ' Read LEG II AYG AISTT, i.e., A^itoniniana. From 

 Orelli, n. 2129, we learn that the title Antoniniana was borne by the 

 LEG" II" A" P" F" soil, adjutrix, pia, fidelis, the same mentioned in 

 one of the Bath and one of the Lincoln Inscriptions.' " 



In n. 759 there is a copy of the inscription in Iambic verse found 

 at Carvoran. The only difficulty in it is in the words 



" Militans 

 Triiunus in prcefecto dono prin'cipis." 



Hiibner remarks : — " Tribunus militans in prsefecto dono principis 

 propter metrwni posituTn est pro tribune cohortis {Jortasse 1 Hamiorum) 

 qui heneficio imperatoris honorem tribunatus ohtinuit, cum prceerat 

 cohorti illi, quam prcefecti regere solebant." He then refers to articles 

 in periodicals on the subject by Henzen, Grotefend, and himself. We 

 have no opportunity to consult the articles to which he refers, but ire 



