SOUTHERN ROMAN BARRIER IN BRITAIN. 143 



date is probably between A.D. 180 and 184. In an * imperfect in- 

 scription (L, S. n. 29) I find the Cohors prima Vangionum (COH- i- 

 vanqionvm). 



From Hadrian's diploma of A.D. 124, we know that the ala prima 

 Sispanorum Asturum, and, probably, the Cohors prima Vangionum, 

 were in the island at that date. The latter corps (with the addition 

 milliaria) was there in A.D. l06, as we learn from Trajan's diploma of 

 that date. In L. S. n. 18. dec m [| arti v 1| iotor 1| vindi H v, ex- 

 panded by Dr. Bruce — " Deo Marti Victori Vindi [cianus] ? votum 

 [solvit]" — we have, perhaps, a trace of the Asturians, for VINDI in the 

 fourth line = vindio seems to be an epithet of Mars derived from the 

 mountain Vindius, in Spain, that separated the Astures and the 

 Cautabri. 



§ 4. ViNDOBALA=Eutchester. 



" Tribunus Cohortis Primce Frixagorum Vindohala." NOTITIA. 



For Frixagorum, we should most probably read Frisiavonum, as this 

 cohort (^Cohors prima Frisiavonum) was in the island in A.D. 106 

 and 124, as we learn from Trajan's and Hadrian's diplomas of those 

 dates respectively. No inscription has been found at this place in 



office up to the time of the outbreak, and was then sent by Commodus, at the 

 time reigning alone, not from the Continent, but from the part of the island 

 where he then was, to the North, to repel the insurgents who had crossed the 

 barrier. These suppositions may be modified by the hypothesis that the orders 

 for the promotion were given in A.D. 180, before March the Hth, the day on 

 which Aurelius died, and that afterwards, in the same year, Ulpius Marcellus 

 was sent by Commodus to Britain, where he continued in office up to the time 

 of the outbreak, and was then dispatched to the North, from the part of the 

 island where he at the time was. Or, finally, Xiphiline may in mistake have 

 ascribed to Commodus alone what was done in the time of both Emperors. Of 

 these the second hypothesis, as modified, seems to me the most probable. 

 * I restore the inscription thus : 



[COH- I- VANjGIO 



[NVM- CVIPJR^- EST 



[MAEJC- CASSI 



[ANVS- PR]^F 



[V- S- L-] M 

 There were, probably, more letters than I have given before C" CASSI in the 

 third line, and ^F in the fourth. The point after PRyE in PRIEST is found 

 in other inscriptions e. gr. in one of those lately discovered at Maryport, for 

 copies of which I am indebted to Dr. Bruce. 



