494 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
As light infantry, they may have been connected with a legion, as 
our light company is with one of our regiments. From the Nofitia, 
it appears that there was a cuneus armaturarum in Britain, at Breme- 
tenracum, possibly (as Bécking suggests) detached from the sixth 
Legion. According to this view, armatura in the inscription may 
be translated, a light-infantry soldier ;* according to the other, a 
life-guardsman. 
36. Another stone found at Lydney bore the inscription : 
PECTILLVS 
VOTVMQVOD 
PROMISSIT 
DEO NVDENTE 
M DEDIT 
which I read,—Pectillus votum quod promisit Deo Nudenti magno 
dedié. Promissit is used for promisit, and Nudente for Nudenti, by 
an orthographical irregularity not uncommon in epigraphy. 
37. The most interesting, and most difficult, of the three Lydney 
inscriptions, is the following, which is engraved on a leaden or 
pewter tablet :— 
DIVO 
NODENTI SILVIANVS 
ANVLVM PERDEDIT 
DEMEDIAM PARTEM 
DONAVIT NODENTI 
INTER QVIBVS NOMEN 
SENICIANI NVLLIS 
PERMITTAS SANITA 
TEM DONEC PERF « RA « 
VSQVE TEMPLUM NO 
DENTIS 
* Some have regarded the armature as cavalry; e.g. Camden (Brit. Gibson, p. 835) “those 
armature were horse armed cap-a-pee, but whether they were duplares or simplares 
(Veget. 11, 7,) my author has not told us.” Thus also Vales, in his note on Ammianus 
Marcellinus, xv. 5, citing Julian in Orat. 1, ad Constantium, p. 48 ed Spanh. and Orat. IT. i. f. 
asserts—“ Armaturas equites fuisse apparet ; but the examination of the passages, cited by 
Vales, shows that they do not warrant his inference. The term cuneus, however, desig- 
nating the body at Bremetenracum favours the opinion that they were cavalry, for cuneus 
in the Notitia is never applied, so far as 1 am aware, to infantry; although Vegetius iii. 19, 
defines it as * multitudo peditum.” 
