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NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 



PART II.* 



BY THE REV. JOHN M'CAUL, LL.D., 



PEESIDENT OF U N I V E E S I T T C O 1 1 E G E , XOEONTO. 



Read before the Canadian Institute, 30iA January, 1858. 



(4.) In article 3 of the preceding part, I cited an inscription on an 

 altar found at Birrens, with the object of establishing the correct read- 

 ing of the nomen of a Preefect of the second Cohort of the Tungrians. 

 As doubts, however, exist, relative to the interpretation of parts of this 

 inscription, I now propose directing special attention to it. 

 MARTI ET VICTO 

 RIAE- AVG- C- RAB 

 TIMILIT- IN COH 

 II TVNGR- CVI- 

 PRAEEST SILVIVS 

 AVSPEX- PRiEF- 

 V S L M 

 Dr. Wilson (Preh. Ann., p. 398) figures the altar, and renders the 

 inscription thus : — " marti et victoria avgvst^ centvri^ 



TIRONVM MILITVM IN COHORTE SECVNDA TVNGRORVM, CVI PR.EEST 

 SILVIVS AVSPEX, VOTVM SOLVERVNT LVBENTES MERITO." 



In the "Caledonia Romana," 2nd Ed., by Prof. Thomson, p. 128, 

 -we have the following translation of this rendering : 



" To Mars and Victory, the Companies Augusta of young soldiers in the second 

 cohort of the Tungrians, commanded by Silvias Auspex, Prfefect, most willingly 

 have performed their vow." 



As this interpretation is evidently unsatisfactory. Prof. Thomson 

 suggests that " The letters C' RAETI probably refer to 100 Raeti, that 

 is, soldiers drawn from the North of Italy and South East of Germany ; 



* Since the publication of Part I. I have noticed an inscription, (Marini, Atti degli Arvali 

 i, 212,) which favours my suggestion in Art. 1., that delicta a medicis was used for 

 derelicta a medicis : 



FELIX- PVBLICVS 



ASINIANVS- PONTIFIC 



BONAE- DEAE- AGEESTI FELIO 



VOTVM' SOLVIT- IVNICEM- ALBA 



LIBENS- ANIMO OB LVMTNIBVS (slc) 



EESTITVTIS- DEEELICTVS" A MEDICIS POST 



MENSES DECIM BENEFICIO DOMINAES MEDICIlfIS SANATVS PER 



EAM EESTITVTA OMNIA MINISTERIO CAENIiE FOETVNAT^, 



Tide also Orelli, q. 1518. 



