FOUND IN BRITAIN. 319 



In Mon. Hist. Brit, there is a note on the final COS, assigning the 

 date A.D. 222-225. But, if the reading of the third line be correct, 

 it was not only his first consulship, but also the first year of his 

 tribunician power. Hence it appears that the date is A.D. 222. 



In A.D. 225, the Emperor Alexander Severus had a different legate, 

 whose cognomen was Maximus, as appears from the following, found, 

 at Great Chesters (Msica), Northumberland, and printed Arch. JEliana, 

 N. S., i., p. 226, Brit. Rom. Inscrip., p. 155 : — 



IMP • CAES MAVR SEVE 

 RVS ALEXANDER P FE 

 AVG IIORREVM VETV 

 STATE CONLABSVM M 

 COH II ASTVRVM S • A 

 A SOLO RESTITVERVNT 



PROVINCIA REG 



MAXIMO LEG 



KAL MARTI 

 FVS 



Imperator CcBsar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Pius Felix 

 Augustus horreum vetustate conlapsum onilites CoTiortis secimdce As- 

 turum SeveriancB AlexandriancB a solo restituerunt provincia[m\ regente 



Maximo Legato Augusti Pro Prsetore — Kalendis Martiis 



Fusco II • et Dextro Consulibus. See Brit. Rom. Inscrip., p. 156. 



In an inscription, found at Carrawburgh (Procolitia), Northumber- 

 land, and figured, Bruce's Roman Wall, 2nd ed., p. 165, we have 

 fragments of the name of the legate of Maximinus, in A.D. 237: — 



M 



. . . .' MAX 



RCOS 



ARMS 



CAES N • SVB • S 



CCIANO VC LEG 



COH I BATAVORVM 



ANTE BVRRIO 



TO PRAE 



RNELIANO 



The following are Dr. Bruce's comments : — 



" The words COH I BATAYORVM are quite distinct. The line following 

 may piobably be read [INST]ANT[E] BVRRIO, and bears the name of the 

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