288 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
that Lucius Sempronius Flavinus was a soldier in that century of 
the 9th legion, which was under the command of Claudius Severus: 
Such a notice of the century, with the name of the centurion, is 
frequently found in the sepulchral inscriptions of soldiers. To 
Mr. Padley’s reading of the next line, “aerum vii ; annorum xxx,” 
there can be no objection, as aerwm is sometimes used for stipen- 
diorum. Vide Orelli, un. 3551, 3552; and Henzen, nn. 5202, 
6841. The fifth line is read by Mr. Padley as “ Ispanica Leria ;” 
and the sixth as “ Civitas Materna.’’ Henzen adopts this reading 
of the fifth line, remarking that Leria was a city of Hispania 
Tarraconensis; but suggests, for the sixth, instead of “Civitas 
Materna,”’ “ Civi Ma[ximi exempli.]’”’ There are, I think, but few 
scholars who would regard either of these interpretations of the last 
line as satisfactory ; and on reference to the copy of the inscription 
in the Magazine, I find that there is no authority on the stone for 
the second I in CIVI, and that MA is most probably an erroneous 
reading of NIA. It appears to me, then, that we may read the 
last line thus: C:IVNIA, curante Junia, denoting the person who 
had caused the memorial of Flavinus to be executed. For the 
reasons which I have stated, I would read the whole inscription 
im extenso thus : 
L:SEMPRONI: FLA L[ucii] Semproni[i] Fla- 
VINI- MILTIS: LEG VIIII vini, milfijtis leg[ionis] viiii, 
Q CLAVDI: SEVERI e[enturia] Claudi[i] Severi, 
AER:VIIT ANOR: XXX = aer[um] vii, an[n] or[um] xxx, 
ISPANICA LERIA [H]ispanica Leria, 
C:IVNIA c[urante] Junia. 
21. At the Mount, near York, there has been recently discovered 
‘a slab, upwards of six feet long, with four incised figures in the 
upper part, and below them an inscription of six lines, of which 
nearly the whole is legible.” ‘The inscription, as far as it can be 
deciphered, reads as follows : 
D*M-: FLAVIAE : AVGVSTINAE 
VIXIT: AN: XXXVIIII:M: VIL’ D- XI- FILIVS 
NVS:AVGYVSTINVS:VXT:AN:I- D: Ii 
AN'I-M- VIIII:D: V-CAERESIVS 
I: LEG : VI: VIC : CONIVGI - CARI 
ET : SIBI: F °C.” 
