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rials, however, of leg- ii- AVG- and leg. vi. v., and we derive the date 

 A.D. 213 from an inscription mentioning C. Julius Marcus as Legate 

 of *Caiacalla — Trih. Pot. xvi. Cos. iiii. Imp. ii. 



§ 5. HuNNUM=Halton Chesters. 



Preefectus Alse Sahinianse Hunno. NOTITIA. 



This ala is named on one stone found here. We have, also, memo- 

 rials of LEG- II- AVG-, LEG- VI* V P- F", and LEG- XX" VV- The only 

 date that we can derive is A.D. 158, from a stone in which the Legio 

 sexta Victrix Pia Fiddls is mentioned with the addition — TER- ET- 

 SAC- cos= TertuUo et Sacerdote Consulibus. 



fecit or posuit. As I have adverted to centuries, I may add that we cannot 

 refer all such stones to legionary troops. The auxiliary cohorts were similarly 

 divided (see n. (1) above in this note), and the centurions seem to have had similar 

 designations, e. gr. princeps in the second cohort of Tungrians. (See Brit. Rom. 

 Inscrip. pp. 13, lY.) Dr. Bruce, L. S. p. 196, remarks that "As the names of 

 the commanders in inscriptions are usually Roman, we may further conclude 

 that the auxiliary forces were generally officered by native Italians." Influ- 

 enced by this view, he explains the passage in Tacitus, Hist, iv, 12, relative to 

 the Batavians : — " Mox aucta per Britanniam gloria, tranmissis illuc cohortibus, 

 quae vetere instituto nobilissimi popularium regebant," as special. " Had this 

 not been a somewhat peculiar case," he remarks, " it would not have been so 

 distinctly mentioned." In this explanation, the words " vetere instituto" seem 

 to have been overlooked ; and the Roman forms of the names of the commanders, 

 noticed by Dr. Bruce, merely show that those persons were Romanized provin- 

 cials, probably, most of them cives Romani. Of the commanders of auxiliary 

 troops in Britain, whose birthplaces are stated, we have, I think, but one native 

 Italian, viz., Quintus Petronius Urbicus, Prsefect of the fourth cohort of Galli, 

 from Brixia in Italy. Titus Domitius Heron, Prsefect of the second cohort of 

 Galli, was from Nicomedia in Bithynia. ^milius Crispinus, Prsefect of the ala 

 Auffusta, was from Tusdrus in Africa. Publius ^lius Magnus, another Prsefect 

 of the same ala, was from Mursa in Pannonia. Marcus Antonius Cornelianua, 

 Prsefect of the first cohort of Spaniards, was from Nemausus in Gallia Narbonensis, 

 and Lucius Antistius Lupus Verianus, another Prsefect of the same cohort, was 

 from Sicca in Africa. It is remarkable that in examples of this kind, viz., in 

 which the birthplaces of the commanders of auxiliary troops are stated, their 

 birthplaces almost always indicate that the commanders were not of the same 

 nationality as that which gave name to the corps. Perhaps it was customary 

 only in such cases to state the birthplaces. As to the men it can readily bo 

 proved that they were often of nationalities difi'erent from that of the corps to 

 which they belonged. (See Brit. Rom. Inscrip. p. 246.) 



* I give the form of this nick-name that has been generally adopted ; the 

 ancient authority, however, favors Caracallus. 

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