490 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
and memoria. ‘There is, however, a sepulchral stone, which, if my 
reading be correct, furnishes a term that I have never met with in 
any other inscription. As the examination of it may be of some 
interest, I shall devote the next article to the consideration of it. 
33. In Horsley’s Britannia Romana (Yorkshire n. 15) we have the 
following inscription : 
DMS 
CADIEDI 
«TAH FO x 
TVNA « 
PIA‘V-AX x 
Mr. Horsley expands it thus: Dis Manibus sacrum Cadiedinie 
Fortuna Pia vixit annos decem. Mr. Ward had previously read it: 
“< Oadillae Jeriae Piae Fortunata Pia, all which names are in Gruter.’’ 
Ii is obvious that Mr. Ward’s reading should be at once rejected. 
According to the process which he adopted, almost anything could 
be made out of anything with the help of Gruter’s Index. 1 am not 
satisfied, however, with Horsley’s expansion. The chief objection, 
which I have to it, arises from the singularity of the names Cadiedinia, 
and Fortuna Pia. There can, I think, be no doubt that pia is not a 
name, but an adjective expressing the character of the deceased 
female. There are many examples of this use of piws and pia (not 
pie) e. gr. Renier’s Inscriptions de l Algerie, n. 2814: 
DMS 
SITTIA 
MENOPHI 
LA: PIA: VIX 
ANXXV 
HS HE 
i.e Dis Manibus sacrum. Sittia Menophila. Pia vixit annis vigints 
quinque. Hic sita est. 
If this view be adopted, it follows then that there are not two 
persons named in the inscription under consideration, but only one, 
whose second name is FORTVNA or FORTVNATA. The question 
then, is as to her first name. Adopting Horsley’s conjecture, I 
would supply N as the first letter of the third ine, but would limit 
the name to the letters EDINIAE, which I regard as used for the 
