318 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS 



IMP • CAES . . .... AVREL 



AVG 



BP..COS..DIV 



DIVISEVER NEP 



CAESAR • IMPER 



ALAE • II • ASTVRV. . .VETVSTAT. . . • 

 ERVNT • PER • MARIVM VALER. A 

 INSTANTE • SEPTIMO • NILO PRAE 

 DEDICATVM • III • KAL • NOVEM • GRATO ETSELE 



Dr. Bruce, Roman Wall, p. 155, 2nd ed., reads it thus '.—Imperatori 

 CcBsari Marco Aurelio — Augusto — Pontifici Maximo Trihunitia 

 potestate Consuli iv Divi Antonini filio Divi Severi nepoti Ccesari 

 Imperatori — Duplares Alee II Asturum templum vetustate conlap- 

 sum restituerunt per Marimn Valerianun Legatum Augustalem Pro- 

 prsetorem instante Septimio Nile prafecto Dedicatum III Kalendas 

 Ifovemiris Grato et Seleuco consulibus. 



From another inscription, found at Netherby (Castra Exploratorum), 

 Cumberland, and printed, Mon. Hist. Brit., n. 40, we learn that he 

 remained governor under Alexander Severus, in A.D. 222. 

 IMP CAES M AVRELIO 

 SEVERO ALEXANDRO PIO EEL AVG 

 PONT MAXIMO TRIE POT COS PP COH I AEL 

 HISPANORVM M EQ DEVOTA NVMINI 

 MAIESTATIQUE EIVS BASELICAM 

 EQVESTREM EXERCITATORIAM 

 lAMPRIDEM A SOLO COEPTAM 

 AEDIFICAVIT CONSVMMAVITQVE 

 SVB CVRA MARI VALERIANI LEG 

 . AVG PR PR INSTANTE M AVRELIO 

 SALVIO TRIB COH • IMP • D • N • 

 SEVERO ALEXANDRO PIO FEL 

 AVG COS 



Imperatori CcBsari Marco Aurelio Severo Alexandra Pio Felici 

 Augusto Pontifici Maximo Trihuniticz Potestatis Consuli Patri Patria 

 Cohors prima jElia Mispanorum Miliaria Uquitata devota numini 

 majestatique ejus basilicam equestrem exercitatoriam jampridem a solo 

 coeptam cedificavit consummavitque sub cura Marii Valeriani Legati 

 Augusti Pro PrcRtore instante Marco Aurelio Salvio Trihuno Cohortis 

 Imperatore Domino Nostra Severo Alexandra Pio Felice Augusta Consule. 



