284 NOTES. ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN, 
Horsley expands it thus: “Silvano Pantheo pro salute Rufini 
tribuni et Lucille ejus Eutychus libertus consulis votum solvit 
libens merito,”’ and supplies uxori after ejws, in the fifth line. The 
only doubt which I have as to the accuracy of this expansion, relates 
to LIB: COS. If Eutychus had been a freedman of the Consul, 
as Horsley believed, the order, according to usage, would have been 
COS: LIB; and instead of the office, consul, the name of the indivi- 
dual would have been given, for consuls, as such, had no iberti. I re- 
gard LIB: as standing for Librarius, and COS* for consulis. The 
librarius was a book-keeper, who had charge of the accounts, and 
is mentioned in many inscriptions, in connexion with the officer or 
body in whose service he was, e.gr. LIB: PRAEF: Librarius 
Prefecti, LIB:CH:, Librarius cohortis. 
17. Amongst the Marmora Oxoniensia is. an altar, found at Ches- 
ter, bearing an inscription of the date a.p. 154, which has been fre- 
quently copied and explained.* 
There can be but little doubt that the true reading of the in- 
scription is as follows : 
subject, I see no reason for changing the opinions. which I have.expressed in the article and 
embodied in the restoration. The only question, about which some doubt is suggested, relates 
to the date. The notice in the inscription of Caracalla as Cos. II. of course fixes the date 
within the cancelli—205, the year of his second consulship, and 208, the year of his third 
consulship. Mr. Hodgson argues for 207, assuming that the emperors were at the time in 
Britain, and adopting Horsley’s opinion that “Severus came into the island in the year 207 
at latest.” He finds confirmation of his assumption as to the presence of the emperors, in 
the title of Senecio being in this inscription vir consularis, instead of legatus eorum 
pr. pr., a8 it appears on a stone found at Greta Bridge. 
Although the conjecture, that the change of titie indicates “the exercise in person [by 
the emperors] of both the military and civil powers of the government, rendering the office 
of legate no longer necessary,” seems plausible, yet there can, I think, be no doubt that both 
Mr. Horsley and Mr. Hodgson are in error in fixing 207 as the year of the arrival of the 
emperors in Britain. The statement of Xiphiline, that Severus died in the island “three 
years after he undertook the British expedition,’’ suggests 208 as the date of his arrival, for 
he died in 211 (on February the 4th; not the 12th, as given sy Mr. Hodgson in a note); and 
this date (208) is confirmed by reference to coins e. gr., one of Caracalla’s bearing the legend : 
PROF. AVGG. PONTIF.TR.P.XI COS. III. 
from which it. appears that the profectio Augustorum took place.in the eleventh TRIB. 
POT. and third COS. of Caracalla, i.e. 208. I am still of opinion, for the reason stated in 
the note, p. 359, that 205,is the most, probable date of the inscription, although it is possible 
that the intention of those, who.set.up the stone may have been to indicate that the work 
was commeuced, carried on, and. completed during the time in which Severus was 
COS.III., Caracalla COS .II., and Geta COS. 
* Tt is especially interesting on account of the epithet Yanarus, which is given to Jupis 
ter; and the supposition is not improbable, that Tanarus, Taras, and. Taranuneus denote 
the.same deity, the Zhor of the northern nations. 
