FOUND IN BRITAIN. 97 



and IMP most probably for Imperatoris. It does not appear that 

 any explanation of MEN has been attempted : I regard it as standing 

 for Mensor*. If there be a point after IV as well as after S, then 

 Horsley's expansion — ex jussu susceptum — is correct, but I am in» 

 cliaed to think that there was none after IV, so that IVS stands for 

 jussu. But what of Condati ? I think that the reference to Condate 

 of the Itinerary is highly probable, and would expand the word in the 

 inscription into Condatianis or Condatinis, i. e. Quintianus mensor ex 

 ducenario Imperatoris ex jussu solvit lihens animo. Horsley's objec- 

 tion that Condate was far from the spot, where this stone was found, 

 seems to me of trifling value. We have many examples of dedications 

 to Matres or to other deities, in localities far distant from the place 

 indicated by their designations. The dedication in the inscription is 

 sufficiently explained by the supposition that Attonius Quintianus had 

 resided at or visited Condate. 



The other inscription, to which I have referred, is Horsley's 

 Northumberland, n. xxxiii : — 



D M D 



TRANQVIL 



A'SEVERA 



PRO-SEETSVI 



S-V-S-L'M 



He expands it thus : Dis Manibus dicatum Tranquila Severa pro 

 se et suis votum solvit libens merito. 



I have never met with an example of the dedication of an altar by 

 any one pro se et suis to the Di Manes, and yet, if there had been 

 such an usage, there would, most probably, be many such, for doubt- 

 less the object would be to induce them to spare in illness or to 

 receive kindly after death. I have but little donbt that D'M'D stand 

 for Deabus Matribus Bomesticis ; although it is possible that the 

 reading may be incorrect, and that the letters are really D"M*ID, i.e., 

 DecB Magnce Idasee. • 



66. The following inscription on a stone, found at Old Penrith, 

 Cumberland, is given by Camden, iii. p. 426, ed. Gough : — 



* Mensores are also noticed among Provincial officials. See the Notitia, ed. 

 Bocking, 28, 38, 214, 236. *293, 300. 



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