NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 289 
fi.e.: Diiis] M{anibus] Flaviee Augustinee ; 
Vixit an[nis] xxxviiii, m[ensibus] vii, d[iebus xi.] Filius 
nus Augustinus V[i] x[i]t an[noj i, d[iebus] iii, 
an[{no]i, m[ensibus] vii, d[iebus | v, Ceeresius 
i legfionis] vi  vic[tricis}] conjugi  cari- 
et sibi f[aciendum] c[uravit. ] 
The Rey. J. Kenrick lately read a paper on the subject before the 
Yorkshire Philosophical Society, from the report of which, in the 
Gentleman’s Magazine for January, 1860, I have taken the foregoing 
particulars. On the interpretation of the inscription, Mr. Kenrick 
offered the following remarks : 
“The monument appears to have been raised hy Czresius, a soldier of the sixth 
conquering legion, to the Manes of his wife, Flavia Augustina, and two children, 
who died in their infancy, and prospectively for himself. Only the termination, 
NVS, of the son’s name remains; there is room on the stone for the letters ne- 
cessary to form FLAVIANVS, which is not unlikely to have been the name, 
But the space before the term of life, in the fourth line, is so small, that there is 
only room for a single name, and we must suppose an ellipsis of VIXIT to be 
supplied from the preceding clause. CAERESIVS is a name, which, in the 
forms CAERETIVS and CAERECIVS, occurs in Gruter. The beginning of the 
fifth line may have contained the second name of Ceresius, which one might have 
expected to be followed by some designation of his military character or office, 
as CENT -MIL. or TRIB-MIL. It is difficuit to find any word ending in [, 
which could grammatically have stood in this position. The number of the 
cohort is often prefixed to the names of auxiliaries, preetorians, &., but not of 
legionaries ; and though the number of stipendia and years of service is often 
noted in inscriptions to deceased soldiers, it could hardly be looked for ona 
monument which a soldier had prepared for himself. It is uatural to conjecture 
that the I is a remnant of an L, in which case MIL may have preceded the title 
of the legion, but the appearance of the stone does not favour the conjecture. 
The space at the beginning of the sixth line is, no doubt, to be filled up with 
the remaining letters of CARISSIMAE,” 
The only difficulty in the inscription is, as Mr. Kenrick points out, 
in the I before LEG. He justly rejects the suppositions that the 
number either of the cohort or of the stipendia is denoted by I as a 
numeral. The natural conjecture is certainly that it should be read 
L, as the last letter of MIL; but that is not favoured by the appear- 
ance of the stone. Under the circumstances, I am inclined to pro- 
pose PRI, as in article 17 of this paper, for PRI[NCEPS]. There 
is little use in speculating on the second name of Cerecius ; but there 
seems to be sufficient space before PRI for some such as FVSCVS, 
