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hic iacit cantvsvs pater pavlinvs, . . Port Talbot, Glamorgan. 

 oatacts hic iacit FiLivs tegernacvs, J q f n ^ e ' j Brecknock. 



As martitts would be a possible Latinization of catacus, tbe pro- 

 bability that TEGEPvNACtrs, who is commemorated at Capel Brithdir, is 

 the same as he of Llanfihangel Cwmdw, confirms this idea, latio, of 

 the Llandyssilio inscription, I regard as the setter up of the monu- 

 ment there. 



It seems indubitable that hic jacet is employed in some instances 

 as the equivalent of titt/lus, just as we use substantively foreign for- 

 mulae, such as sine qua non, on dit, &c. Thus : — 



hic iacit maccvdecceti, .... Penrhos, Anglesey. 



kvani hic iacit, Michel, Cornwall. 



vendvmagli hic iacit, .... Llaniltern, Glamorgan. 



ehoeigi hic iacit, Llan Babo, Anglesey. 



evoleggi eili litogeni hic iacit, . Llandyssilio, Pembroke. 



trenegvssi ,, maglitrent, ,, . Cilgerran, ,, 



icvenali ,, eternt, ,, . Llannor, Caernarvon. 



meli medici ,, martini, ,, . Llangean, ,, 



tvrpili ic iacet pvvEEi trilvni dvnocati, . Crickhowel, Brecknock.' 



" The hic jacet of Turpilius, son of Trilunus (son) of Dunocatus." 

 oorbalengi iacit oedovs, . . . Penbryn, Cardigan. 



" The jacet of Corbalengus. Ordous placed." 



•cvlidoei iacit etoewite mvlier secvndi, . Llangefni, Anglesey. 



" The jacet of Culidorus. Etorwite wife of Secundus placed." 

 The uncertainty of the last letters in the following prevents our 

 •classifying it ; but I fancy the last word will prove to be the repre- 

 sentative of the modern bedd " grave." 



cenlisini bEdg, Llandewi brevi, Cardigan. 



There is only one monument in Scotland to be compared with 

 these : — 



HIC MEMOR IACET LOIN REGNT PRINC NVDI DVMNOCENI 



HIC IACENT IN TVMVLO DVO EILI LIBERALI. 



Yarrow, Selkirkshire. 



Like the Hayle inscription, this consists of two parallel sentences. 

 In the first hic iacet represents tituxus, and memor is curiously inter- 

 posed. The names of the princtpes are nudvs and dumnocenvs, and 

 the second clause tells us the name of their father, liberalis. 



The first class of monuments can scarcely be earlier than the be- 

 ginning of the fourth century. Their inscriptions resemble those of 

 <iaul. The second are peculiarly British, and some of them may be as 



