' 484 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
It is not easy to discover where Stuart found any authority for the 
word Stipendiaries, which he introduces into his translation, for on the 
supposition that he mistook the meaning of Stipendiorum, we are then 
at a loss for the Latin denoting “who served for.’ Nor is it possi- 
ble to reconcile Ammonius in the nominative with his translation—“ of 
Ammonius Damion.” Professor Thomson’s suggestion to connect 
xxvii with heredes is so obviously unwarrantable, that it is surprising 
that any one could for a moment have entertained the idea. There 
is no doubt that the words—COH I HISPANORVM STIPENDIO- 
RVM XXVII HEREDES F-C-—mean “of the first cohort of 
Spaniards, of twenty-seven years’ service, his heirs have caused [this 
memorial] to be erected ;’? and the only questionable point is as to 
Damionis. I am inclined to take it as the genitive case, F either 
being omitted, or perhaps obliterated by the fracture of the stone 
between S and C, where there seems to be sufficient space both for it 
and for >, the symbol of centurio. 
27. In the year 1736, a fragment of a grave-stone was found im 
Bath, which, according to Dr. Stukeley (Phil. Trans., 1748), bore 
the inscription :— 
L: VITELLIVS : MA 
NIAI‘F:TANCINVS 
CIVES -HISP:CAVRIESIS 
EQ: ALAE: VETTONUM: CR 
ANN: XXXXVI-STIP:XXVI 
H'S-E 
ie. “Lucius Vitellius Maximiani filius Titus Ancinus, civis Hispanus Cauri- 
ensis equitum ale Vettonum Curator anno 46 Stipendiorum 26 hic sepultus est.” 
Mr. Warner (History of Bath, Append. p. 118) reads Mantani for 
Mazimiani, Tancinus for Titus Ancinus, Hispanie for Hispanus, 
centurio for curator, and hic situs est for hic sepultus est. He trans- 
lates the whole inscription thus: ‘ Lucius Vitellius Tancinus, the son 
of Mantanus, a citizen of Caurium, im Spain, centurion of the Vetto- 
nensian auxiliary horse; whe died in the forty-sixth year of his age, 
and the twenty-sixth of his military service.” 
The term centurion is explained on the supposition that the ala, 
“here spoken of was probably attached to the twentieth legion; in 
this Tancinus bore the office of centurion; a command somewhat 
analogous to the captaincy of a troop in our service.” Mr. Scarth 
(Proceedings of Somersetshire Archeolog. and Nat Hist. Society, 
1852, p. 102) remarks, that “the stone was erected on the place of 
