NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 487 
pansion SECVNDVM ARTEM for S:A is, in my judgment, unsat- 
isfactory. I regard the letters as standing for SEVERIANA 
ALEXANDRIANA. Orelli, n. 3395, furnishes an example of a 
similar use of them. The reading “PROVINCIA REGNANTE, 
governing the province,’ is unquestionably erroneous. Whether: 
provincia be regarded as the ablative, or, as is most probable, as used 
for provinciam, there is no authority for the government of either 
accusative or ablative by regnare, nor for the application of the term 
to the government of a province by a legate or other Roman officer. 
T would suggests PROVINCIA[M] REG[ENTE]. Thus Tacitus, 
Hist.i. ce. 48, ‘“ Vinius proconsulatu Galliam Narbonensem severe 
integreque reaxit.” 
It may also be of importance to add, that Dr. Bruce’s translation 
“‘happy’’ does not express the sense of felix as an epithet of the 
Emperors. It signifies what we mean by “fortunate,” “lucky,” 
and is expressed in Greek by edrvxys. It was first applied, as is well 
known, to Commodus, to mark his good fortune in being rid of 
Perennis, whose treasonable designs were abruptly terminated by his 
murder by the soldiers. 
30. In the same work (vol. i. p. 251), a stone bearing a funereal 
inscription is figured : 
C: VALERIVS :C: VOL: 
IVLLVS: VIAN « MIL 
LEG: XX-V°V 
Dr. Bruce explains it thus :— 
“The inscription may probably be read thus: Caius Valerius Caii (filius) 
Voltinia (tribu) Tullus vixit annos quinquaginta miles Legionis Vicesime 
Valentis Victricis. (In memory of) Caius Valerius Tullus, the son of Caius, of 
the Voltinian tribe, a soldier of the Twentieth Legion (styled) Valiant and Vic- 
torious (who) lived fifty years. Hodgson’s reading is: Caius Valerius Caius 
Voltinius Julius vixit annos, de. * * The age of the soldier has been cut upon 
a nodule of ferruginous matter, which has fallen out: there is not space for two 
letters, so that there is little doubt that the inscription originally had L.” 
Dr. Bruce’s expansion is a great improvement on Mr. Hodgson’s, 
but I am not satisfied with it. The position of MIL- LEG: , &c., 
without any distinguishing mark between VI and AN,* lead me to be- 
* In the original, as figured by Dr. Bruce, there are leaf-points after Valerius, ©, Vol, and 
Tullus. 
