142 IDENTIFIED STATIONS ON THE 



A.D. 208 or the beginning of 209, and of the third * doubtful. Two 

 Legions, also, are named on other stones found here, viz. Legio 

 Secunda Augusta (leg- ii- AVG-) in the time of Antoninus Pius, and 

 Legio Vicesima Valeria Vicirix (leg- XX- V V") Of the "flatter the 



against the Caledonians, and that the date ia before Geta was made Augustus 

 i n 209, and not earlier than 208, the year ia which Severus and his sons came 

 to Britain. 



* This inscription is sadly mutilated. According to Mr. Mossman's reading 

 as given in the wood cut, the extant letters are — 



NIO 



BI AV 



I SV 



AYG E 



LMIAS 



01 I 



V 



I 



Dr. Bruce, reading P for B, expands — [Imp. Cces. M. Anto] nio [Gordiano] 

 Pi [o Felici] Au [^] . . . . Aug , . . . [^] la3 I As \tunmi\ . . . 

 oi . . . . The second AVG may have been applied to an Imperial Legate 

 sell. LEG- AVG-, whose name has been lost ; but if we refer it to a joint 

 Emperoi-, and adopt Mr. Mossman's reading BI, it would seem that we have here 

 the two Gallic— C. Vibius Trebonianus Gallus and C. Vibius AJinius Qallus Vol- 

 dunuiianus Vohisianus. On this supposition, the date will be between A.D. 

 252-254. 



f This inscription is on an altar erected by Tineius Longus, who may have 

 been Frmfectus Alee primoe Asturum and Tribunus Laticlavius Legionis Vicesimce. 

 In it we have the words — judiciis opt'wiorum maximorumque Impp. N. sub. Vlpio 

 Mar cello Cos, from which it is difficult to derive an exact date. In treating 

 the question it may, in my judgment, be assumed as certain, that the Ulpius 

 Marcellus Consularis named here, was the Governor and General who drove back 

 the insurgent Caledonians in A.D. 184 ; and as most probable, that the Imperalores 

 JVostri were joint emperors, the "Augustok-," in another inscription found along 

 with this. The point of the difficulty then, is — that the inscription represents 

 Ulpius Marcellus as Consularis in the island in the time of joint Emperors, 

 whilst Xiphiline, in his abridgment of Dio Cassius, states that it was Commodus 

 who sent him against the Caledonians, and we know that he obtained the title 

 Britannicus in A.D. 184, from the success of that General in the island. The 

 following seem to be the only solutions that can be offered. The orders for the 

 promotion of Tineius Longus may have been given by Aurelius and Commodus^ 

 but not carried out until some years afterwards — sub Ulpio Marcello Consulari — 

 sent by Commodus to the island in 184. Or (according to my supposition, as 

 stated in the Canadian Journal) Ulpius Marcellus may have been sent during 

 the joint reigns of Aurelius and Commodus to Britain, where he continued in 



