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The Varduli were a People of Hifpania citerm\ 
mentioned by ‘Pomponius Mela and others 5 and are 
recorded now, in no lefs than three Infcriptions, to 
have ferved in Britain as Auxiliaries, The two 
other are printed in Horjle/s Britannia Romana * 
Northumb.W. xciW\ ‘Durh. xxvi. W e find Troops 
of feveral Nations to have been here upon the fame 
Occafion, as Cohors prima, fecunda, &c. Batavorum, 
‘Dacortm, Nerviorum y Tungrorum , < Delmatarum> 
Thracum , &c. 
This Cohort of the Varduli is intituled fida, a 
very common Appellation, and moreover creo®a- 
n on nan a j the laft Letters of which I feparate, and 
read without inferting a fingle Letter antonini- 
ana, thus, anto i 3 rJ ana. Nothing is To frequent 
in Infcriptions, as this compendiary Way of writing 
antoninvs, and its Derivatives. Thus in Horfle/z 
fnferiptions, 
m.avr.aktoiJno.pio. 
North , cxi xi » 
M.AyRELI.ANrONINI.PII.FELIC. 
North . xciv^o 
COH.lTlI.BR. * 
avtonnia. 
North . Lxxvl. 
Upon this Hint therefore I am perfuaded, that 
when the Stone is next infpe&ed, thefe little Apices 
will appear, which are eafily overlook'd, when this 
brief Manner of Writing is not expected or attended 
to. 
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