NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 287 
20. In 1830, an ancient grave-stone was found in excavating the 
foundations of Mr. J. 8. Padley’s house, in Lincoln. It is figured 
in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1842, p.ii. p.351; and the imscrip- 
tion is given in the Monumenta Historica Britannica, p. exii. n. 58a ; 
and by Henzen, n. 6676, as follows : 
L: SEMPRONI- FLA 
VINI-: MILTIS - LEGVIIII 
Q(?) ALAVDI SEVERI 
AER VIIANOR XXX 
ISPANICA LERIA 
CIVI MA 
Ii is plain that the first two lines are to be read : 
; L{[ucii] Sempronifi] Fla- 
vini mil[i]tis leg[ionis] none 
but there is considerable doubt as to the word or words preceding 
SEVERI, in the third line. Mr. Padley remarks, that if the first 
letter in the line be Q, it may stand for quadrate, i.e. legionis none 
quadrate ; and reads the following word as “ Alaude (a lark), a 
name given to legions, the soldiers of which wore tufted helmets, 
supposed to resemble the crest of the lark.” The Editor of the 
Magazine suggests that the letter is G (not Q), “and is certainly 
some epithet of the legio Alauda. Perhaps galeate alauda, crested 
by the lark; or galeritz alauda.”’ The rest of the line, I SEVERI, 
is read by Mr. Padley as Julii Severi, and the reading is illustrated 
by the observation that “Julius Severus was a governor of Britain 
under Hadrian.’”? The Editor of the MWonumenta Historica Brit- 
annica adopts Alaude, but doubts whether I should be read as 
Julius or Junius, as there were two propretors of Britain named 
Severus ; the one, Julius, under Hadrian, the other, Junius, under 
Commodus. Henzen is of opinion that the latent reading of the line 
is ‘‘ Sud curA (or something similar) cLAVDI SEVERI.”’ I have 
but little doubt that Henzen’s emendation CLAVDI is correct; 
and I regard the first A in ALAVD as a mistake forC. One of the 
cognomina of the 5th legion was Alaude ; whilst those of the 9th 
were Hispanica and Macedonica. The first letter of the line, 
which is stated to resemble ‘the letter g inverted,” and “the 
Etruscan G, the Roman G reversed,” appears to me to be merely 
an inverted C, standing, as it often does, for centuria, and denoting 
