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of NEP. or N. for Nepoti, after Parthici and before et, where, accord- 

 ing to his view, it should appear. The succession of the titles of 

 Caracalla, given here, seems to me to have been similar to that in 

 Horsley's Northumberland, cxiii., so that the ET was preceded by 

 DIVI TRAIANI PARTHICI and followed by DIVI NERVAE 

 ADNEPOTI. SeeOrelli, nn. 926, 927.- Inn. 33, where a portion 

 of another dedication to Caracalla is figured, we have in the second 

 line a part of DIVI ANTONINI PII PRONEPOTI. 



70. In the Roman Wall, p. 385, 2nd ed., and in the Illustrated 

 Catalogue, p. 84, an altar, found at Risingham, is figured. It bears 

 the following inscription : — 



FORTVNAE 



SACRVM.Cos 



VALERIVS 



LONGINVS 



TRIB 



The inscription, a little abbreviated, is repeated, on a lower project- 

 ing base. Dr. Bruce, Roman Wall, reads it thus : Forfunce Sacrum 

 Valerius Longinus Tribunus ; and in the Illustrated Catalogue, pre- 

 fixes C i.e. " Caius." In the wood-cut the letters OS are distinctly 

 legible after, or, rather, within C. If they are genuine, of which I 

 have some doubt, arising chiefly* from Dr. Bruce's omission of any 

 notice of them, we have, I think, an example of the rare prcenomen, 

 Cossus. See Gruter, cvii. 1, 2 ; Fabretti, p. 26 ; Marini, Atti, i. pp. 

 86, 103 ; Orelli, n. 2713. 



71. In the Roman Wall, p. 401, 2d ed., an altar is figured, bearing 

 the inscription, as Dr. Bruce reads it—" LAMIIS TRIBVS,— To 

 the three Lamise." Altars to these female vampires, the terror of 

 Romanf children, are very rare. I have never met with another 

 example, unless my view be correct with regard to the inscription> 

 given in Gruter, cvii. 4. It is there read thus : — 



LVMIIS 

 EX VOTO 

 PRIMICENIVS 

 LITIO. 



* In the ArchcRologia Mliana, iii. p. 162. this altar is also figured. In that, 

 representation, a leaf point takes the place of the OS. 



t Hor. A, P., 340. Necpransce Lamise vivum puerum extrahat alvo. 



