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ThePerfon who had the Care of thefe Repairs both 
in Town and Camp, was Marcus Aurelius Quirinus, Pra- 
fePi or Commander of a Company of Foot ; another Ar» 
gumenc for the Propixtors Lucilianus and Fufcns fuccced« 
ing immediately one the other, he ferving in the fame 
Poft under both. I mud obferve however, that altho’ 
the two fird inferiptiens have been cut very near the 
fame time, and by the fame Hand, as appears by the 
Form of the Letters, and Manner of the Abbreviations 
in each of them, yet the Office that this Quirinus bore 
is fomething differently exprefs’d in the fird from what r 
it is in the fccond, if they have been accurately tran- 
feribed ; the Fird fliewing, after Qj^IR I NO the Letters 
PRE.GH. I. LG. R, which, before I had feen the Latter, 
1 was induced to read Prdfe^fo Coherlis .friwA Longovica- 
riorum, the ' Notitia Imperii placing the Prerfeltus nume- 
ri Longovicariorum Longovico. That Numerus and Cu* 
hors WQTQ the fame thing, " Pancirollus^ in his Notes 
upon that Book, quotes St. Chr)fo(lome to prove, and 
fome other?, Cohors erat qui vocatur Numerus ; but I ra- 
ther take it to be an indefinite Number of Men, which 
might comprize feveral Companies, independent of a- 
ny Legion. ^ Negetius, fpeaking of the Legati Impera^ 
toris, fays, in quorum locum nunc illufires viros confiat Ma- 
gi(lros Militum jubjlitutos, a qaibus non t ant urn bina Legio- 
nes, fed plures Nwmeri gubernantur\ by which it is plain, 
the Numeri were no Legionary Cohorts. Neither was the 
Name fo modern as from the Notitia Imperii and Chr^- 
foflome it might appear to be 5 for we meet with a Nu- 
meras Britonum upon an Altar found in Tranfylvania, de- 
dicated to the Nymphs, when the Emperor Cemmodus and ' 
Glabrio vatiQ Confuls, A.D. 186. And ^ another Nume- ‘ 
rus upon an Altar ereded to Hercules for the Profperity ! 
of j 
b *fol,i6i,b 5 Lib, IIr.c.9. < Gf«^r, p.94. 4. ’id .46.9. j 
