NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 229 



Baxter considers as synonymous with Nemetotnagus) seems in the 

 chorography of Anonymus Ravennas, and is conjectured by Baxter, to 

 be the present Launceston. If this be allowed, the near approach of 

 Nemetona to the town Nemetomagus, will justify the opinion of the 

 former being the local divinity of the latter." 



Mr. Scarth (Somersetshire Archseolog, & Nat. His. Soc's Proceedings, 

 1852, p. 99) mentions the opinions (which have been above stated) 

 relative to Jupiter Cetius and Nemetona, without, however, expressing 

 approval of them, or offering any other explanation. 



There can, I think, be but little d^oubt in the mind of those who 

 have noticed Marti Leucetio in Gruter, Iviii. 3, that I, the initial 

 letter of the 4th line of the inscription, is a mistake for L, and that 

 we should read the names of the deities 



LOVCETIO 

 MARTI ET 

 NEMETONA [E] 

 In Steiner, 1 Dan. et Rh. 1, n. 472 (cited by Henzen, n. 5899, who 

 also proposes this emendation) we have 



CVRTELIAPREPVSA 

 MARTT LOVCETIO 

 VSL-LM 

 and 



MARTI LEVCETIO 



T. TACITVS CENSORINVS 



VSLLM 



The deities are joined in the following inscription, found at Altripp, 



prope Nemetas, and given by Henzen, n. 5904 : 



MARTIET NEMETO 



NAE 



SILVIN IVSTVS 



ETDVBITATVS 



VSLLP 



Leucetius seems to be derived from Leuci, and Nemetona from 



Nernetes, both being names of peoples in the neighbourhood of the 



Treviri.* It is scarcely necessary to add, that there is no foundation 



for Mr. Warner's assertion, that " Peregrinus is merely an appellative." 



The name often occurs in inscriptions ; and it must be borne in mind 



* Of these derivations, the latter appears to be certain, but the former doubtful, as we 

 have evidence that Jupiter was called Leucetius, as the giver of light. Vide A. Gell. Noct. 

 Att. V. 12 ; FestM X, i, and Serv. on Virgil, ^u. ix. 570. Another derivation, which has been 

 proposed, from Lewce, an island in the Euxine, is very improbable. 



