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more usual form AEDINIAH by the ordinary substitution of EH for. 
AH. The name AEDINIA frequently occurs, e. gr. in Renier’s 
Inscriptions de V Algérie, Adinia Julia in n. 1924, Atdinia Lucilla in 
n. 2598, Aidinia Rogata in n. 3015, and Hdiniain n. 2802. Inn. 195 
we have Adia Fortunata. From what has been advanced, it may, I 
think, be reasonably inferred that the correct reading ot the inscrip- 
tion, omitting CADI, is Dis Manibus sacrum Edinie Hortune (or 
Fortunate]. Pia vixit annis X * But we have yet to examine CADI. 
I am inclined to suggest that it is a designation of the receptacle for 
the remains of the deceased. Jam unable to cite an example from 
any other inscription, but Virgil, din. VI., v. 228, supplies the fol- 
lowing authority : 
“ Ossaque lecta cado texit Corynzeus aheno.” 
It is well known that cupa and cupula, both signifying barrels, are 
used as designations of receptacles of the dead, and to these I think 
eadus should be added, as denoting, perhaps, an earthen vessel of the 
form of a cask, used for the same purpose. Gutherius (de jure 
Manium, Grev. Antig. XII, p. 1224) figures a cupa made of stone. 
As to the construction, cadi may be either in the nominative plural 
or in the genitive singular. It is not easy to decide on the con- 
struction on the latter supposition; but there seems to be no doubt 
that it was used—e. gr. Orelli, n. 4477: 
DROIT 
LOCI IN QVO 
CORPVS T:LV « « 
SABINIAN LV 
CIANI CREMA 
TVM EST. 
As it is not probable that the genitive is after dis manibus, we 
must suppose the omission of some such word as signum or titulus, 
indicating that the stone was the mark of the place or receptacle. 
34, The discovery of inscribed stones has made a large addition to 
the number of the deities in the ancient Pantheon. Besides those 
noticed in Gruter’s great work, Spon made a collection of inscriptions 
on altars zgnotorum atque obscurorum quorundam deorwm; and in De 
Wal’s Mythologie Septentrionalis monumenta epigraphica Latina, we 
have notices of most of the northern deities, who were known up to the 
time of the publication of the volume in 1847, but no complete list 
