FOUND IN BRITAIN. 317 



Vieux, Normandy. See Smith, Collect. Antk/., iii., p. 98. Line 5 

 of the first inscription should accordingly be read, an I have sug- 

 gested, Brit. Bom. Inscrip., p. 162, Sub cura Claudii Paulini, &c. 



It seems also plain that the second inscription is the older of the 

 two, for i"n it the making, the erection of the building, is commemo- 

 rated, of which the restoration is noticed in the first. It is not plain, 

 however, what Emperor is named — whether Caracalla or Elagabalus. 

 Dr. Bruce gives the latter as certain ; I rather incline to the former. 

 See Brit. Rom. Inscrip., p. 163. 



From an inscription, found at Netherby {Castra Exploratorum), 

 Cumberland, and printed Mon. Hist. Brit., n. 40, we learn the name 

 of the legate of Elagabalus in his second year, scil. A.D. 219 : — 



IM ANTON 



. . P • FAVG BIS COS VEXIL 

 LEG • II • AVG • ET XX V • V • 

 ITEM COH • I • AEL • HISP 

 M • EQ • SVB CVRA M 

 D IVNII LEG • AVG • PR • PR . . 



i.e. Imperatori Csesari Marco Aurelio Antonino Pio Felici Augusto 

 his Gonsuli Vexillationes Legionis secundcB Augustce et vigesimce Val- 

 ericB Victricis item cohors prima JElia Hispanorum Miliaria eguitata 

 sub cura (M) Becimi Juiiii Legati Augusti Pro PrcRtore. 



In Mon. Hist. Brit, there is a note, in which there is a query 

 whether the Emperor named is Elagabalus, and consequently whether 

 the date is 219. If the reading be correct, the Emperor who is named 

 is certainly Elagabalus ; for if it had been Caracalla, who was bis cos, 

 his father would have been mentioned. I am not satisfied as to the 

 name of the legate. The M is separated in the *copy, by an interval 

 from CVRA, so that we may not read CVRAM, and this is, besides, 

 unusual. Nor is it probable that it stands for Marci. It has occurred 

 to me that, perhaps, there was an O after it, and that IVNII was a mis- 

 reading for IVLII. We shall thus get MOD • I VLII, i.e. fModii Julii, 

 the same legate named on a stone, without date, found at Birdoswald. 



An inscription found at Chesters (Cilurnum), Northumberland, and 

 printed, Mon. Hist. Brit., n. 6Q, informs us that Marius Valerianus 

 was a legate of the same Emperor in A.D. 221. 



• I have seen this inscription only in the Mon. Hist. Brit. It is printed, also, by Hodg- 

 son, and Lysons, hut I am not able to consult either of these authorities, 

 t In Brit. Bom. Inscrip., p. 30, 1 have offered a different conjecture. 



