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the three constructions, which were used in such inscriptions, viz. : the 

 nominative, the genitive, and the ablative. In n. (2) TI • CLA.VDIVS • 

 CAESAR • AVG • P • M • TRIE • P • VIII • IMP • XVI • DE • BRITAN, 

 we have the nominative, indicating, as I think, that the object was taken 

 as spoil : in n. (8) IMP ' CAES • DOMITIANO • AVG • COS • VIL 

 we have the* ablative indicating the time, scil. from September 13 to 

 December 31, A.D. 81 ; and in n. (11) IMP • HADRIANI • AVG • 

 and n. (12) IMP • DVOR • AVG • ANTONINI |1 ET • VERI • AR- 

 MENIACORVM we have the genitive, indicating that the blocks 

 weref the property of those emperors, being the produce of mines 

 worked for their benefit. N. (7) IMP • DOMIT • AVG • GER • DE • 

 CEANG • I have read in the nominative, conformably to the unques- 

 tionable construction of n. (2), whilst I have preferred regarding nn. 

 (5 and 6) IMP • VESP • V : : T • IMP • Til • COS and IMP • VESP • 

 Vll • T • IMP • V • COS in the ablative, indicating the time, although 

 the DE • CEANG on their sides excited a doubt between that case 

 and the nominative I shall now proceed to the consideration of the 

 'doubtful portions of the remaining inscriptions, J reserving for special 



• Mr. Yates, in a valuable "Memoir on the mining operations of the Romans," Proceedings 

 of Somersetshire Arch, and Nat. Hist. Society, Taunton, 1859, observes relative to this in- 

 Bcription ; " I conceive that it should be read in the ablative case, Imperatore Casare 

 Domitiano Augusta consule septimum. On this supposition the mine may have been worked 

 by private hands." The first of these remarks is unquestionably correct : Domitiano, followed 

 by Cos. VII., is certainly not the dative. The latter is i)robable, as it is questionable 

 whether under the emperors any mines were worked except for their benefit, or that of the 

 individuals who rented them. 



t Thus Mr. Yates, On the mining operations, A-c,, p. 2, observes .— " The retention of 

 mines by government may account for the inscriijtion found on pips of lead, such as IMP " 

 HADRIANI* AVG, in the genitive case, showing that they belonged to the Dmpcror. In 

 other instances the name of an individual, occurring in the genitive, shows that he rented 

 his mine from the government, e. g., L • ARVCONI • VERECVNDI. This implies that tho 

 lead was the property of Lucius Aruconius Verecundus." In article 48 I have noticed an 

 inscription, having the name in the nominative, on a block, the product, as I believe, of a 

 rented mine. 



% Prom Mr. Yates' Memoir, pp. 21,22, 23, I learn t'lat two pigs of tho Emperor Severus, 

 probably imported from Britain, have been found in France, one at Lillebonne, the ancient 

 Julia Bona, and the other at Sassenay near Chalons-surSaone, not far from a Roman road, 

 which led to the coast opposite Britain. On one of these are the inscriptioris LVICVC and 

 DL'P. M. Canat, President of tho Historical and Archnoological Society of Chalons, in a 

 Memoir on the subject, docs not attempt to interpret the first of these, but infers from 

 the accent in the second, whereby L and P are separated, that' the letters denote numbers, 

 and thus interjircts DL' P as meaiiiug 550 pounds in weight, P standing, as is common, for 

 Pondo. But as tliis does not at all correspond with the actual weight of tho pig, he "con- 

 jectures that it [ro«(/o/'J here denoted the semis or half-lUira.'' In this way the marked 

 and the actual weiglits agree within 2 kilogrammes and 8 hectogrn mines, " tlu; loss of which 

 may very well he ascribed to accident, waste, or abrasion." There is no authority, so far as 



