556 LAPIDARItJM SEPTENTRIONALE. 



"If the proper order was to be abandoned, this seems the fitting place for 

 doing so, as the Maiden way, coming from the south to Magna, and continued 

 northwards from this station, brings Amboglanna into direct intercourse with 

 the contiguous forts in all directions."/ 



Subsequently, in 1873, Prof. Hiibner's Inscriptiones Britannim 

 Latin<B appeared, in wbicb he identifies Maryport (otherwise called 

 Ellenborough) with Uxellodunum (otherwise called Axelodunum), 

 regards Papcastle as Ahallava, and infers " stationes Notitice omnes 

 inde ah Ahallaba numerari ordine nobis adhuc ignoto." "We have 

 thought it necessary to mention the facts that are here adduced, as 

 the remark in the Lapidarium — 



"Mr. Watkin, Dr. McUaul, and Prof. Hiibner, all yield to the argument we 

 have stated " 



might be misinterpreted as indicating that Dr. Bruce had ever advo- 

 cated these views before they were advanced by the above-named 

 enquirers, or that he had in any way led to the inference. 



In n. 725, Dr. Bruce gives the following inscription : — 



D + M 



CONDATI 



ATTONIVS 



QVINTIANVS 



MEN EX CO IMP 



EX IVSSU LL A (?) 

 His expansion is : — ^^ Deo Marti (?) Condati Attonius Quintianus 

 mensor ex ducenario Imperatoris exjussu lastus libens merito." 

 And the following are his observations : — 



"The espansion of the two last lines is that which the editor is informed 

 Professor Mommsen long ago proposed, and which Dr. McCaul has also given in 

 the Canadian Journal. 



"Attonius Quintianus was a mensor, having previously been a ducenariits Imper- 

 atoris. Both" of these terms admit of various applications. In a civil sense, the 

 dueenarii were imperial procurators who received a salary of two hundred 

 sestertia; in a military sense they were officers who commanded two centuries. 

 The mensores were surveyors employed in various capacities ; some had charge 

 of measuring the space to be occupied by the tents in the camp, others provided 

 quarters for soldiers on a journey ; in a civil sense they were measurers of land, 

 or of corn taken to the public granaries, or architects. 



" See Smith's Diet. Ant. 



" Probably the last letter on the last line was M, merito ; if, however, it be 

 correctly read, the A stands for animo," 



