. ( m ) 
for the ufe of this Piece of Flattery to the Emperors 
long before that excellent Prince came to the Purple. 
The third Line, as 1 believe, was EX AVC ^0- 
R I T A TE. T I B. C L A V D. and the fourth CO- 
G I D V B N I. R. L E G. 6Cc. that is. Ex Au^orita- 
te Tiberii Claudit Cogidubni Regis, Legati Auguftt in 
Britannia for the following Reafons : We are inform- 
ed by Tacitus in Vita AgricoU That after Britain 
had been reduced to a Roman Province by the fuccefs- 
ful Arms of Aulus Plautius, and OJioriits Scapula, un- 
der the Emperor Claudins, Qu^dam Civitates Cogidu- 
Tio Regi erant donate, is ad nojiram ufqus memoriam fi~ 
diffimus remanjit, vet ere ac jam pridem recepta Populi 
Romani confuetudine ut haberet inflrumenta fervitutis 
Reges. This Cogidunus feems to be the fame Per- 
fon as Cogidubnus in our Infcription, the Letter B in 
the third Syllable making little or no Difference in the 
Word, efpecially if pronounced foft, as it ought to be, 
like a V confonanr. 
It is fo well known to have been the Cuflom of the 
Roman Liberti and Client es^ to take the Names of their 
Patrons and Benefadors, that it would be wafting of 
Time to prove the conftant Ufage of that Pradice. 
Now as this Cogidubnus, who, in all Probability, was 
a petty Prince of that Part of the Dobuni which had 
fubmitted to Claudim, and one that continued many 
Years faithful to him and the Romans ^ , had given him 
the Government of fome Part of the Hand by that Em- 
peror, nothing could be more grateful in regard to 
Claudius, nor more honourable to himfelf, after he 
was Romani fed, than to take the Names of a Benefa- 
CLq q 2 dor 
* Cap, i4« 
V. Tacit, ut fupra. 
