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ADDITIONAL EEMAEKS. 



After placing the photograph in a variety of lights, I came 

 nearly to the same conclusion as Miss EusseU, about the letter- 

 ing, except that what she considers to be FINN, (and she may 

 be right) appeared to me to be NENN. There is a shadowy 

 appearance of a large N after the I of the preceding word, and 

 both Sir James Simpson, and Dr. Smith (Proo. Soc. Antiq. Scot. 

 vol. IV. pp. 134, 538-9) adopt this reading. This, however, and 

 what follows, is the dimmest part of the inscription. Fii is a 

 contraction, possibly for the genitive plural, at least it ought to 

 be. PEINCIPEI. is either an erroneously formed genitive sin- 

 gular, or it is susceptible of division. Under the latter view, 

 PEINOIP. may be a contracted word ; E may be ET, and I. 

 with a period, IMPEEATOEIS. DYMNOGENI is a genitive 

 singular. Out of this we obtain the expanded reading : — ** Hie 

 [est] Memoria Ceteloi Nennique [vel Finnique] filiorum Principis 

 et Imperatoris Nudi Dumnogeni. Hie jacent in tumulo duo filii 

 Liberalis," i.e. Here is the sepulchre of Oatelus and Nennius (or 

 Finn), sons of the Chief and Commander [the "Guledec"] Nudd, 

 the Dumnonian. Here lie in the tomb the two sons of Hael. — I 

 think there is here record of two persons only, and not four, and 

 that the second section is supplementary. The lettering 

 resembles that of the " Cat-Stane " described by Sir James 

 Simpson, (Proc. Soc. Antiq. of Scotland, rv., plate v.,) attributed 

 to the fourth and fifth century ; and also the Llanerfyl Inscribed 

 Stone (Montgomery Shire Collections, xvi, p. 91) of the fifth 

 or sixth century, but is ruder than either. St Kentigern, the 

 protegee of Ehydderch Hael, uncle of Nudd Hael, died in the 

 beginning of the 7th century, (Historians of Scotland, v. Introd. 

 p. Lxviii). Was this inscription, within the bounds of his 

 diocese and apparently of his age, the handywork of any of his 

 disciples, or did he himself inspire the legend ? 



Memoria is not of common occurrence in the sense of sepulchre ; 

 but there is an example in Gruter, 894, 2. SEEYILIVS 

 TEOILVS SE VrVO COMPAEAYIT MEMOEIAM SIBI ET 

 SVIS. MEMOEIAM POSYIT has been found at York on a 

 stone cofB.n, (See Dr. McCaul's Britanno-Eoman Inscriptions, pp. 

 98, 214, 215.) St Augustine de Oura proMortuis, c. 4, expressly 

 gives Memories as the equivalent of Monumenta. In the life of St 

 Anthony, translated from Athanasius by Evagrius, the saint is 

 recorded as having withdrawn to the sepulchres remote from the 



