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states, that " there are coins of Elagabalus in which he is thus styled." 

 I am not aware of any such, excepting those noticed by Eckhel, VII, 

 p. 249, and Rasche II, ii, p. 792, as bearing the legend INVICTVS 

 SACERDOS AVG, where invictus seems to be applied to him as 

 priest of Sol, of whom that term is a. perpetuum epitheton. 



If we assign the inscription to Caracalla, a question still remains as 

 to the date of it. As there is no mention of either Severus or Geta, it 

 is most probable that it was after the death of both. Now Severixs 

 died at York in February, A. D. 211 ; and Caracalla and Geta left 

 England in the same year, for Rome, where Geta was murdered in 

 February A. D. 212. The limits then are February, 212, and April, 

 217, when Caracalla himself was murdered. The statement by Eckhel, 

 that Felix did not appear on the coins of Caracalla until A. D. 213 

 suggested to me that year as one of the cancelli, but there is unques- 

 tionable evidence that Felix was amongst his epithets on stones before 

 that date, not only in conjunction with his father, (of which there are 

 well known examples,) but also separately after his accession. 



7. In the year 1754 an altar was found in Upper Stall Street, Bath, 

 bearing the following inscription : 



PEREGRINVS 



SECVNDI FIL 



CIVISTREVER 



lOVCETIO 



MARTI ET 



NEMETONA 



VSLM. 



Mr, Gough (Camden's Britannia, i. p. 118) observes, that the altar 

 "was erected by Peregrinus to two new local deities. Jupiter Cetius 

 may be the Ceaicus or Ceatius on an inscription given by Mr. Horsley, 

 278, in Cumberland, and takes his name from Mount Cetius in Nori- 

 cum, under which was the town of Cetium, and Nemetona, one of the 

 many local deities mentioned only in these inscriptions." 



Mr. Warner (Hist, of Bath, p. 120, Append.) remarks, that " It 

 is dedicated to three deities, the Cetian Jupiter, Mars, and Nemetona, 

 a local deity. The name of the person who erected it does not 

 appear ; for the word Peregrinus is merely an appellative, implying 

 that he was a stranger or traveller. We find, however, by the second 

 and third lines, the name of his father Seeundus : and the city of his 

 residence, Treves in Germany. The last of the deities mentioned in 

 the inscription seems to have been a British one, and known only in 

 the south-western parts of England. The nam.e Nememotacio (which 



