106 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS 



first saw the inscription, I read PRAETORIVM [COLLAPSVM 

 VETVS]TAT'[REFE]CIT, regarding M as the last letter of the desig- 

 nation of the corps that executed the work, and supplying between it 

 and I, C'R- or EQ- or M'EQ. I was not, however, satisfied with this. It 

 then occurred to me that E perhaps was a misreading of S, and thus, 

 retaining the reading P for I, we get CH'PR'ASTORUM i.e. Cohors 

 jprima Astorum (otherwise Asturum), the Cohort stated in the Notitia 

 to have been stationed at iEsica. 



73. In* Aqu(B Soils, or " Notices of Roman Bath," by the the Rev. 

 H. M. Scarth, M.A., p. 77* we have the following account accompany- 

 ing a drawing of an inscribed marble fragment found in that city in 

 1861 :— 



" The inscription is on white marble, apparently foreign, since none is found 

 in England, though it is in Ireland. 



The letters are aa follows : — 



DEAE-S 

 TI • CL • T 

 SOLLEN 



(also portions of letters, which may be E or F, and LI, or II or H, of smaller size.) 

 The letters are particularly well cut, and seem to belong to an early period of 

 the Roman occupation of our Ireland, The small fragment of the letter S leave? 

 little doubt that the dedication was to the DEA SVL or SVLMINEEVA to 

 whom, as we have seen, six inscriptions relate* and also a temple or other build- 

 ing was dedicated. In the second line we have the abbreviations of two names 

 of the dedicator TI(BERIVS) CL(AVDIVS), with a triangular stop after each, 

 clearly cut, and the first letter of the cognomen (T), which may be any Roman 

 name beginning with that letter. The third line commences with the wor£l 

 SOLLEN ; but the remainder is broken away, leaving us to conjecture that it was 

 the word SOLLENNES or SOLEMNES, and referred to the vows paid to the 

 tutelary goddess. The word SOLLEMNIS occurs in an inscription on marbl{& 

 preserved in Fabretti, and also given in Orelli, and is a fragment of a funeral 

 laudatory Inscription of the Augustan age. The letters commencing the fourth 

 line are cut smaller, but it is not possible to conjecture the word of which 

 they formed components." 



I have but little doubt that the letters SOLLEN formed a part of 

 the name SOLLENNIS or SOLLEMNIS, the cognomen of the dedi- 

 cator. These forms of the name are not noticed in the Index to 



* A handsome volume, with numerous illustrations, lately published by R. E. 

 Peach, Bath. It contains full and accurate information regarding the many inter- 

 esting memorials of Bath, during the Roman period, that have been found in or 

 near that city. 



