FOUND IN BRITATN. 107 



Gruter, but they are sometimes found e. gr. T. Sennio SoUemni on 

 the monument at Vieux. See Smith's Collect. Anfiq. iii. p. 92. In 

 the first line Suit or Suit MinervcB followed Deoe. In the second 

 after TI-CL-T were, most probably, I'F followed, perhaps, (according 

 to the normal order), by the name of the tribe e. gr., GAL : i. e. 

 Tiberius Claudius Tiberii Jilius [Galeria]. Sellennis in the third line 

 may have been followed by the name of his *birth place, and perhaps 

 by the preposition ob or pro ; and it is not improbable that the three 

 broken letters of the fourth line were FIL, i.e. Jilium ox filiam,JiUo 

 or filia. We may conjecture, then, that this altar was erected on 

 account of, or for the recovery of the son or daughter of the dedica- 

 tor, scil. ob jilium (or filiam), [morbo recreatura or recreatam], or 

 profilio {or filia) [morbo male adfecto or adfecta]. 



Many altars of this class must have been erected in Bath to the 

 deity presiding over the waters, either as a thank-offeriug for health 

 restored or as a propitiation during sickness for recovery. In this 

 case it seems probable that Sollennis vowed to Sul-Minerva, that if his 

 child should obtain relief from the use of the waters, he would erect 

 to her a marble altar ; and that this fragment is a portion of that 

 which he erected in fulfillment of the vow. See Horace, Odes, iv., 

 1, 20, where, however, the vow relates to a statue. 



74. In the same volume, p. 79, we find the following fragment of 

 an inscription : — 



AIIVS 

 ONDEDIT 

 ET QVINTIANO COS 



Mr. Scarth's remarks on it are : — 



*' The inscription, which was on white lias stone, was found in digging out 

 the remains of a building, which was one of several that bordered on the line of 

 the Foss Road, six miles from Bath, and about a mile beyond the Red Post Inn. 

 It is not known what has become of it. With it were found part of a stone 

 statue and pieces of painted stucco. The first line is much defaced, only the 

 letters A, V and S, being distinctly legible. The letters between the A and V 

 may have been a T and I, or P and I, or 11, so that the name seems to have ter- 

 minated in the form ATIVS, or APIVS, or AIIVS. The next word is plainly 

 [C]ONDEDIT, an B being put for an I. In the third line we have ET 

 QVINTIANO COS. So that we are able to supply what is wanting, knowing 



• Almost certainly on the continent, where doubtless the marble was got. 



