78 SYLVA CEITICA CANADENSIUM. 



The stone is figured in the Lapidarium Septentrionale. It is 

 expanded thus, and the following remarks are given : 



"MARTI COCM 

 LEG • II AVG 



> SANCTIANA 



> SECVNDINI 



D • SOL • SVB CV 



EA • ^LIANI (?) 



CVRA • OPPIVS 



FELIX OPTIO 



Marti Cocidio milites 



legionis secundse Augiistsa 



Centuria Sanctiana 



ceiituria Secundini 



Deo (?) Solverunt (?) sub cu 



ra ^liani centurionis (?) 



curavit Oppius 



Felix optio 



"The inscription presents some difficulties. The meaning seems to be this — 



the altar was dedicated to Mars Oocidius ; tlie dedicators were some soldiers 



belonging to two centuries of the second legion, the century vSanctiana, and the 



century of Secundinus ; the party being at the time vmder the command of the 



centurion ^lianus ; Oppius Felix, the optio, took charge of its erection. 



"The editor has in vain sought for some authority for the expansion of the 

 letters D " SOL • in the fifth line. None is to be found. The Rev. John Hodgson 

 reads de solo ; such an expression is often used as to a building, but is inappli- 

 cable to an altar. Professor Hllbner suggests, though very doubtfully, dato 

 solo. Mr. Clayton proposes deo or dels solverunt." 



The letters D • SOL, doubtless, present very considerable difficulty. I 

 have never met with them before. Various expansions have suggested 

 themselves to my mind, the best of which I regard the following : — 

 D[evoti.] SOL[i]. With this view we may compare the inscription 

 in Lersch, C. Museum, n. 14, Bonn, or Steiner, Cod, Inscrip. Eom. 

 Danuhii et Bheni, n. 1268 : 



IN ■ H • D • D • PRO 

 SALVTE • IMP • SEVERI 

 ALEXANDIRI • AVG • DEO 

 APOLLINI • DYS • PRO • LV • S 

 OLQ • DE • MILITES • LEG • 

 XXX • V • V ■ P ■ F • SVB • CVRA 

 AGENT • T • F • APRI 

 COMMODIAN • e • q • B • 



i. e., In honor em domus Divince, pro salute Imperatoris Severi Alex 

 andri Augusti, Deo ApoUini, Bis propitiis Lunce Solique devoti milites 



