312 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS 



This governor is named, if Mr. Clayton's reading be correct, in the 

 following inscription, on an altar* found at Benwell {Condercum)^ 

 Northumberlandshire, and given in the Gentleman' s Magazine, De- 

 cember, 1862 : — 



DEO ANOCITICO 

 IVDICIIS OPTIMO 

 RVM MAXIMORVM 

 QVE IMPP • N • SVB VLP 

 MARCELLO COS • TINE 

 IVS LONGVS IN PRAE 

 FECTVRA EQVITV 

 LATO CLAVO EXORN. 

 TVS ET Q • D 



Beo Anocitico judiciis Opfimorwn Maximorumque Imperatorum NoS' 

 trorum sub JJlpio Marcello Consulari Tineius Longus in prcefectura 

 equitum lata clavo exornatus et Qucesfor [f] designatus [?'\. 



In Brit. Rom. Itiscrip., p. 288, where I have discussed this inscrip- 

 tion, I offered the conjecture that the letters at the end of the fourth 

 line, read VIB or VLP, were NER, and that the legate named was 

 Neratius Marcellus, Governor in A.D. 104. From further information 

 on the subject, I have reason to believe that Mr. Clayton's reading is 

 correct, soil. VLP. Accordingly the Imperatores Nostri must be — as 

 suggested by Rev. Dr. Scott (see Gent. Magazine, November, 1863)- — 

 Aui'elius and Commodus, and the date A.D, 177-180. Hence we 

 assume, with probability, that TJlpius Marcellus was legate 179 to 184 ; 

 for it was in this latter year that his achievements in the island won 

 for Commodus the title Britannicus. See Clinton, Fasti Rom., p. 182. 



JPerennis is regarded by some as the successor of Ulpius Marcellus, 



• There was found, at the same time and in the same place, another altar, bearing the 

 inscription : — 



DEO 

 ANTENOCITICO 

 ET NVMINIB- 

 AVGVSTOU- 

 AEL'VIBIVS 

 3 LEG-XX-VV 

 V-S-L-M 



Nothing is known of the god Antenociticus or Anociticws. It has occurred to me that 

 their names indicate a Greel£ origin, as if they had been a pair, whence we have, in the 

 designation of one of them, ANT. i.e. avri. 



