328 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS 



Mr. Smitli's explanation is, in the main correct, but there are 

 some points that require notice. GAL • stands for Galerid, scil. 

 tribu, Augustali should have been Augustalis, or, rather, Augustiy 

 and the meaning of EIVS seems to have been overlooked. It is 

 scarcely possible that the pronoun can refer to T. Pomponius, &c. ; I 

 regard it as used for ejus filia, i.e. Salus his daughter, scil. of ^scu- 

 lapius. There are similar examples of ellipsis both in Greek and Latin. 



It is plain that Mr. Deane's remarks have been written without 

 sufficient consideration. The date of the " Funisulanus Vettonianus, 

 mentioned by Tacitus, Anna!., xv., 7," is not " A.D. 72," but A.D. 

 62 ; and it is impossible that " L. Funisulanus Vettonianus (circa 

 A.D. 100)," or any one else, can have been tribune of the sixth 

 legion (Leg. vi. Vic.) in Britain, in the time of Nerva, for that 

 legion was not in the island until the time of Hadrian. Again, the 

 date of "the L. Funisulanus Vettonianus" to whom Mr. Deane 

 refers — scil. the same mentioned in the inscription cited by Brotier, 

 in his Notce et Emendationes, on Tacitus, Ann., xv,, 7 — is not "circa 

 A.D. 100," but circa A.D. 86, for the Dacian war in which he served 

 was not that uader Trajan, but that under Domitian. Nor is there 

 any ground for supposing that the person named in the inscription 

 was the son of the Funisulanus Vettonianus mentioned by Tacitus. 

 It is plain that both notice the same person, who was Legatus legionis 

 quartcB. On the inscription (cited by Brotier) found at Turopoglys^ 

 in Croatia, see Henzen, n. 5431, and especially Borghesi, Giorn. 

 Arcad., vii., p. 376. 



"What " the reasons " can be that Mr. Deane says that he has " for 

 thinking that T. Pomponius Funisulanus Vettonianus was legate of 

 the twentieth legion about the year A.D. 295, or perhaps somewhat 

 earlier," I am wholly at a loss to conjecture. It is certain that an 

 inscription was found at Chester, in which the 20th legion is men- 

 tioned, and in which, also, are found Domini Nostri Augusti invic- 

 tissimi. Now, as these were, probably, Diocletian and Maximian, we 

 may thus get a date for the presence of the legion there " about the 

 year A.D. 295," but neither in that inscription, nor in any other 

 record, is there evidence sufficient to warrant a conjecture as to the 

 date at which Pomponius Funisulanus commanded the twentieth 

 leigon : indeed, it is not certain that he ever commanded it at all. 



{k) Found at Lanchester, Durham, according to Mus. Ver., ccccxlv., 

 9, and Orelli, Inscrip., n. 3403. 



