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ute not concur in this view of the meaning of the words. We under- 

 stand them as denoting that Donatianus, by the favour of the 

 Emperor, held the office of Legionary tribune whilst he was Prsefect 

 of 2lTl ala. Of this -we can produce two examples in Britain. In 

 Orelli's n. 5017 we find that M. Stlaccius Coranus was Tribunus 

 fuilitum Legionis II. Aug. Prmfectus equitum alee Hispanorum in 

 Britannia, and in n. 504 Inscrip. Brit. Latinae, Tinelus Longus is 

 stated as — in proefectura equitum lato clavo exornatus, i.e., whilst 

 Frce/ect of an ala he was also trbunus latlclavius, not improbably of 

 the 20th Legion. See Suetonius, Claudius, c. 25, Vegetius, ii., 7, 

 Brit. Horn. Iiiscrip.,^. 287, and Canadian Journal, vol. xii., pp. 114, 

 115, 1868. 



Chapter Ixi. of the work is devoted to the inscriptions found 

 at Risingham, the ancient name of which is believed by some to have 

 been Ilabitancum, which Hiibner emends into Habitancium. The 

 great objection to the proposed ancient name is that it is not found 

 in any ancient author, nisi forte latet (as Hiibner ingeniously suggests) 

 in Bvidensca Bavennatis. The sole authority for the name is an 

 inscription on an altar found at the place, of which we subjoin a 

 ■tjopy from Inscrip. Brit. La time, n. 996 : — 



DEO 



MOGONTI CAD 



ET-N-D-N- AVG 



M- G- SECVNDINVS 



BF- COS- HABITA 



NCI PRIMA- STAT 



PRO- SE- ET- SVIS- POS 



The chief difficulty in this inscription is in the words HABI- 

 TANCI PRIMA STAT. The received opinion is that NCI should 

 be connected with HABITA, thus forming HABITANCI, and that 

 this is the ancient name of Bisingham ; also that PRIMA- STAT 

 should be expanded PRIMA- STATi'one, but the word prima is 

 diffei-ently interpreted as first from the Wall going north, or first 

 from the boundary of the province going south. In the Canadian 

 Journal, vol. xii., p. 125, this inscription is fully discussed, and the 

 expansion Habita nomine ducenarii prima statione is proposed. 

 But this expansion was based on the faith of the accuracy of an 

 improved woodcut in the 3rd Ed. of Dr. Bruce's " Roman Wall," in 

 which the letters before HABITA are clearly given as NCCI, not 



