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prefect under whose superintendence the building was erected, to which the 

 slab referred. In the last line, the word [CO]RNELIANO may be perceived. 

 In 237, when Maximinus was Emperor, Titius Perpetuus and Rusticus Corne- 

 lianus were consuls. That this is the date of the inscription is rendered likely 

 from a fragment of the Emperor's name appearing in the beginning of it." 



This determination of the date is well and satisfactorily done ; but 

 MAX in the second line probably stands for Maximus, following 

 Dacicus, Germanicus, or some such title, the M in the first line being 

 the second in Maximinus. RCOS, in the third, may be part of 

 PROCOS. ARMS, in the fourth, is a portion of Sartnaticus, a title 

 of his son Maximus, the Csesar. The name of the legate may have 

 been Salvius Coccianus, the same as that borne by Otho's nephew 

 mentioned in Tacitus, Hist., ii., 48. 



Nonnius Philippus was the Emperor Gordian's legate in A.D. 242, 

 as appears from the following inscription, found at Old Penrith, Cum- 

 berland, and printed, Horsley's Brit. Rom. Cumberland, n 55 : — 



I O M 

 PRO SALVTE IMPERATORIS 

 M ANTONI GORDIANI P • F • 

 INVICTI AVG ET SABINIAE FVR 

 lAE TRANQVILE CONIVGIEIVS TO 

 TAQVE DOMV DIVIN • EORVMA 

 LA AVG GORDIA OB VIRTVTEM 

 APPELLATA POSVIT CVI PRAEEST 

 AEMILIVS CRISPINVS PRAEF 

 EQQ NATVS IN PRO AFRICA DE 

 TVSDRO SVB CVR NONII PHI 

 LIPPI LEG • AVG • PRO PRETO 

 ATTICO ET PRAETEXTATO 

 COSS 



Jovi Optimo Maximo pro salute Imperatoris Marci Antonii Gordiani 

 Pii JFelicis invicti Augusti et Sahinice. Furice Tranquillce eonjugi[s] ejus 

 totaque domu divina eorum ala Augusta Gordiana oh virtutem appellata 

 posuit cui prceest ^milius Crispinus prcefectus Eq^uitum natus in PrO' 

 vincia Africa de Tusdro sub cura Nbnnii Philippi Leqati Augusti Pro 

 Pratore Attico et Pratextato Consulibus. 



Egnatius Lucilianus and Mcecilius Fuscus were also legates of the 

 same Emperor, but we do not know their dates. Perhap§, as Horsley 

 thought, they preceded Nonnius Philippus. They are named in the 



