SYLVA CRITICA CANADENSIUM. 79 



hgionis tHcesimce Ulpice Victricis, sub cura agentium Titi Fla'Oi Apri 

 Commodiani. 



4. In the Eiyhemeris Spigrajjhica, 1877, Yol. III., pp. 132, 133, the 

 following account is given of two inscriptions, on which I offered 

 some observations in the Canadian Journal, Yol. XI Y., p. 544 : 



"Legendum igitur Victoriae Augg. Alfeno Senecioil[e] co(n) s(ulari) felixala 

 [prima] As(turixm). Senecioni pro casu sexto fortasse positum est barbare. 

 Manifestum est, alam ipsam felicem dictam lapidem dedicavisse (ut infra 

 in n. 100 hujus additamenti) ; sed quid M et PRA litterae significent, quae iam 

 non possunt coniungi eum reliquis, ignore; nisi fuit M(arciano) pra(efecto). 

 Expectamiis cognomina alae imperatoria, veluti Antoiiiniance. Oeterum in altero 

 textus exemplo onmino desunt. Observa Genios, non Victorias, in lateribns. 

 Haec mecum communicavit W. Th. Watkin. 



In the Journal of the Archceological Institute, 1878, Yol. XXXIY., 

 p„ 144, Mr. W. Thomson Watkin writes thus, having given an ac- 

 count of the copy of the inscription in the Ashmolean Museum : 



"In any case the correct reading of the stone is estabhshed, showing that the 

 Word Felix, instead of being a proper name, is used in the same sense as in the 

 inscription lately found at Gilurnum." 



The inscription lately found at OUurnum is thus given by Hiibner, in n. 160 

 ©f the Additamenta : 



(S)ALVIS AVGG_ 

 (F)ELIX • ALA • 11 ' ASTVE 

 A 

 VIRTVS 

 AVGG- 



Bruce lapid. append., p. 472, n. 943, qui annotat alteram G in vocabulo AVGG 

 titroque loco eradi cseptam esse. Idem accidit vocabulo [Antoninianja. Brucius 

 non sine probabhitate propter titulum, n. 585, in quo AntoninianaB cognomen 

 item erasum est, cogitavit de Elagabalo et Alexandre Augustis. Alam II, 

 Asturum Cilurni in castris fuisse ad quintum usque sseculum notum est. 



The stone is figured in the Lapidarium Sei:>tentrionale, n, 943, and 

 the following expansions and remarks are there given : 



' ' Salvis Augustis 



fehx ala secunda Asturum 



Antoniniana (?) 



Virtus 

 Augustorum." 

 "The inscription is different from any that we have previously met with. 

 The evident meaning of it is, ' So long as the Emperors are safe the second ala 

 of Asturians "will be happy.' A reference to the inscription, n. 121, leads ub 

 to suppose that the Emperors to whom this flattering comphment was paid were 

 Elagabalua and Severua Alexander. Very soon after this inscription wag carved 



