FOUND IN BRITAIN. 329 



NVM • AVG • ET 



GEN • COH • II 



VARDVLORVM 



C • R • EQ • M • SVB • AN 



TISTIO ADVEN 



TO LEG • AVG • PR • PR 



. . . . TIANVS TRIE 



i.e. Numini Augusti et Genio Cohortis secunda Vardulorum Civium 

 Romanorum Equitatce Miliaria sub Antistio Advento Legato Augusti 

 Fro JPrcetore — tianus Tribunus. 



I am persuaded that this stone was not found in England. From 

 Orelli, n. 1270, we learn that C. Antistius Adventus was Legate of 

 Germany. 



In Wright's Celt, Roman, and Saxon, p. 364, we have the follow- 

 ing statements : — 



" G. Yalerius Pansa occurs, as holding the same office [of propragtor] under 

 Trajan, in an inscription found at Novara, in Italy, published by Muratori. 

 Qaintus Calpurnius is mentioned in an inscription found in Northumberland, 

 believed to be of the age of Commodus." 



Neither of these statements is correct. C. Valerius Pansa did not 

 hold the office of propraetor, and the Quintus Calpurnius, to whom 

 Mr. Wright refers, scil. Quintus Calpurnius Concessinius, was not 

 legate, but merely a Prcefectus Equitum. See Brit. Rom. Inscrip., 

 p. 193. 



In Mon. Hist. Brit., p. cxlvi., C Valerius Pansa and M. McBnius 

 Agrippa, are given as Proconsules, but in both these cases there is 

 the same mistake, caused by reading PROC *, Proconsul, instead of 

 Procurator. See Brit. Rom. Inscrip., p. 254. Britain was never a 

 Proconsular Province ; the Emperor himself was the only Proconsul 

 of it, as of his other provinces. And yet we find in Lingard, History 

 of England, i., p. 45 : " Pomponia Gracina, the wife of the proconsul 

 Plautius ;" and in Merivale, Hist, of the Romans under the Empire, 

 vii., pp. 79, 81 : "Trebellius Maximus had mitigated the severity of the 

 proconsular government," — " Petilius Cerealis, the next proconsul," 

 — " C. [Cn,] Julius Agricola, consul, A.D. 77 ; proconsul in Britain, 

 A.D. 78." There was not one of those Governors who was a Pro- 

 consul ; each of them was Legatus Augusti Proprcetore. 



With a view to facility of reference, I add a synopsis, giving the 

 principal results of the foregoing examination. 



