FOUND IN BRITAIN. 13 



PAGVS, in botli inscriptions, I regard, not as a proper name, but as 

 tlie ordinary term, used by Ceesar and Tacitus, for " a district." 

 Vide Csesar, E.G. i. 87 ; iv. 1 ; and Tacitus, Germ. 39. CONDRVSTIS 

 (or perhaps CONDRVSTVS — a form used in the m.iddle ages) and 

 VELLAVS are, in my judgment, ethnic adjectives, the former derived 

 from CONDRUSI, the latter fromVELLAI. The Condrusi and Vellai 

 are both mentioned by Csesar (B.G. ii. 4, and vii., 75.) The Condrusi 

 were neighbours of the Eburones, who were succeeded by the Tungri. 

 The Vellai, Vellavi, Vellavii, Vellaiini, or Velauni were a people of 

 Gallia Celtica, or Aquitania, as the latter term was extended in signifi- 

 cation under Augustus. 



They are noticed by Strabo, (iv. 2.) and Pliny, (iii. 20,) and their 

 name is found in inscriptions : e. gr. 



ETRVSCILLAE 

 AVG- CONIVGI 

 AVG- N 



CIVITAS VELLAVOR 

 LIBERA. 

 The Etruscilla mentioned in this inscription is Herennia Cupressenia 

 Etruscilla, the wife of the emperor Trajanus Decius, which fixes the 

 date to the middle of the 3rd century after Christ, 



Itihera of course indicates the independence of the Vellavi, which 



they erijoyed, however, in the time of Strabo, although in that of 



Caesar, (B.G. vii. 75,) they were in subjection to the Arverni. 



For other inscriptions relative to this people, vide Mem. des anti- 



quaires de France, iv., pp. 87 and 528. 



MILI (or MILT) and MILIT are abbreviations of militans — not of 

 militavit, as Henzen states, for the verb is in the omitted final formula — 

 SIVO (or SIVOD, the ancient form of the dative and ablative, as given 

 in the illustration,) is an erroneous reading of SILVIO, as appears from 

 the following inscription also found at Birrens : 

 MARTI ET VICTO 

 RIAE- AVG- C- RAE 

 TI MILIT- IN COH 

 II TVNGR- CVI- 

 PRAEEST SILVIVS 

 AVSPEX PRAEF- 

 V S L M, 

 The names of the goddesses, as they appear in the inscriptions, I 

 regard as VIRADESTHI, (or VIRADETHI, as it is given in the litho- 

 graphic representation in the " Caledonia Romana/') and RICAGM- 



