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accompanying woodcut. The last line of this inscription, it will 

 be observed, reads thus: — \_Gohors I. Van]gionum, item Raeti 

 Gaesafi et Exploratores . . . posuenmt." 



Gaesum seems to be the name of a spear or javelin, first of all 

 used by some savage tribes, but afterwards adopted by some Roman 

 troops, "What the peculiarity of the weapon consisted in we have 

 no means of knowing. This vexihation seems to have been armed 

 with it, and hence were called Gae^ati. 



After each of the letters, Q, c, a, in the inscription, we have a 

 leaf stop — indicating a contraction. These same letters occur in 

 two other inscriptions found at Habitancum, but now lost. I 



