FOUND IN BRITAIN. 105^ 



Gudius suggested the emendation LYMPHIS. To me this seems 

 much less probable than that the word was LAMIIS, the A being 

 turned upside down, of which there are examples, for instance, Hors- 

 ley's Northumberland, n. xviii. 



72. In the Illustrated Catalogue, Sec, n. 92, we find the following 

 " portion of an inscription " on the part of a slab found at j&ica^ 

 Great Chesters : 



YS ANTONINO ET 



THICIS MEDICIS 

 M * IRAETORV 

 TAT. . CIT ET 



•* A hole has been bored through the. stone at the place marked by 

 the asterisk." 



As there is no wood -cut representing the stone, nor any re- 

 marks on it, it is not easy to suggest a satisfactory rendering 

 or interpretation. There are, however, some portions about which 

 there can be no doubt. It is plain, from the epithets Parthicis 

 Medicis, that the Emperors named were Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 

 and Verus, and that the date is consequently A.D.* 165-169. It 

 may also be assumed that VS in the first line are the final letters of 

 DVOBVS, as we have on a pig of lead, found in Somersetshire, 



IMPDVORAVG ANTONINI 

 ET VERI ARMENIACORVM. 



Here all that is certain is exhausted. If we accept the reading, as 

 given by Dr. B., of the next two lines as correct, and regard some let- 

 ters as lost by the boring between M and I, it is probable that M waa 

 the last letter of the designation of the building or work executed, or 

 of the participle or adjective agreeing with it, and that the rest of the 

 line was CH'I'RAETORVM {CoJiors prima Bcetorum), followed by 

 EQVITAT- (equitata), or MIL'EQVITAT {Miliaria equitata) of 

 which the last three letters (TAT) are in the fourth line ; and after 

 this we seem to have FECIT.ET. This reading is liable to the objec- 

 tion that there is no evidence that a Cohort of Rsetians was ever in 

 Britain. This objection, however, is not of much importance, as there 

 are other examples of Cohorts named on stones found in Britain, for 

 whose presence in the island we have no other authority. When I 



* See Orelli, n. 859.; Henzen's Index, p. 69 ; Clinton's Fasti Eomani, vol. i 

 pp. 154, 162. 



