310 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS 



II. — During the second Century. 



The military diploma found at Malpas, in Cheshire, in 1812, and 

 given in Mon. Hist. Brit., n. 7, Brit. Bom. Inscrip., p. 5, mentions 

 Trajan's legate, in A.D. 104, soil. *L. Neratius Marcellus ; but we 

 have no evidence as to the time of his arrival or departure. 



From another military diploma, found at Stannington, Yorkshire, in 

 1761, and given in Mon. Hist. Brit., n. 9, we learn that fPlaiorius 

 Nepes was Hadrian's legate in A.D. 124. 



We also know the names of two other legates of this Emperor, sciL 

 Julius Severus, from Xiphiline, Ixix., 13, and Pompeius Falco, from 

 Henzen's In?crip., n. 5451. Julius Severus was in Britain in A.D. 

 134, for we may assume, with Clinton, Fasti Bomani, p. 120, that it 

 was in this year Hadrian sent him to the Jewish war. 



Camden, Introd., p. xcvi., GougKs ed., discovered in an ;j;inscription 

 another'legate under this Emperor, viz. : Priscus Licinius ; and Hors- 

 ley believed that he found |1 traces of his names in the order Licinius 

 Priscus, on a stone found in Cumberland. See Brit. Bom., p. 270. 

 There is no doubt that the celebrated general, Statius Priscus, was 

 Governor of Britain ; but there is evidence that he was Legate under 

 §Aurelius and Verus, not under Hadrian. 



We find no mention of any legate, after Severus and Falco, until 

 we come to Lollius Urbicus, the governor under Antoninus Pius, 

 mentioned by Capitolinus, in his life of that Emperor. He gained 

 his victory over the Britons most probably in A.D. 139. 



He is noticed in the fragment of an inscription found at Beraulie, 



• See Brit. Rom. Inscrip., p. S. 



t All the British inscriptions have Platorius, not Plcetorius. 



% This inscription is said, in Speed, Hist., ed. 1623, p. 219, to have been found in Britain, at 

 the Picts' Wall ; but there seems no reason to doubt that it was found at Rome, as stated in 

 Gruter. 



II I can offer no feasible conjecture as to the name of the legate in this inscription. The 

 remaining letters are thus given by Horsley: — 



IICNC IR 

 V PR PR 

 At the beginning we have CAESTRA, from which it may be inferred that the Emperor was 

 Hadrian. 



§ See Henzen, n. 5480, who gives the inscription in an amended form. From his note it 

 appears that Borghesi identified this governor with the Priscus, who was, against his will 

 proclaimed Emperor by the army in Britain. Thus, also, Mr. Merivale, vii., p. 508, who cites 

 the passage from Constantine Porphyrogenitus. 



