FOUND IN BRITAIN. 11 



(2.) In Nether Hall is preserved a Roman altar, found in the camp 

 at Maryport, (Olenacum,) which bears the following inscription ; 



DEAE 

 SETLO 

 CENIAE 

 L. ABAR 

 EVS CE 

 V. S. L. M. 



Dr. Bruce, in his very interesting and learned description of " the 

 Roman "Wall " (2nd Edit. London, 1853, p. 400,) has figured it, and 

 offers the following remark relative to the interpretation : 



*' Nothing is known of the goddess Setlocenia, to whom the altar seems to have 

 been dedicated by Lucius Abareus, a centurion." 



Although I have not seen the stone, I have little doubt that Setlo- 

 cenia, which has been regarded* as the name of an unknown goddess, 

 is composed of significant parts, and should be expanded into SANCTAE 

 ET LOCI GENIO. 



It is impossible to determine, without examination of the original, 

 the exact appropriation of the letters, but it seems to me plain that S 

 is for Sanctce, (as is frequently found,) and et unaltered, whilst it ap- 

 pears probable that LO is for loci ; that C is a mistake for G, thus giving 

 GEN for genio ; that I is a mistake for L or T, the centurion's names 

 being Lucius or Titus JElius Abareus; or GENI ior genio, without any 

 prsenomen. CE is of course for Centurio, and V.S.L.M the usual 

 final formula. 



Another reading, which might be suggested, of GENIAE as the 

 feminine form oi genius, is liable to the objection, that the word never 

 occurs, so far as I am aware, in any ancient author or inscription. 

 The only place in which I have seen it, is Heyne's note on Tibullus, 

 IV. 6 1. 



(3.) Some of the most interesting and abundant memorials of the 

 military occupation of Britain by the Romans, are connected with the 

 Tungrian auxiliaries, mentioned by Tacitus (Agric. 36,) in his descrip- 

 tion of the defeat of Galgacus by Agricola. Amongst the numerous 

 altars erected by members of these cohorts are two, found at Birrens, 

 {Blatum Bulgium,) in Annandale, Scotland, which present similar 

 difficulties of interpretation. The inscriptions on them (as given in 

 Stuart's "Caledonia Romana," Edinburgh, 1852, p. 128, 2nd edition, 

 by Prof. Thomson, King's College, Aberdeen,) are : 



♦ Viae Camden's Brit. Ed. Gough, III, p. 438. 



