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tes^ vanquiflied and killed in Battle by Aldus Plautius. 
The fecond a Prince that fubmitted to OJiorius Sca^ 
pula, and continued in his Fidelity to the Romans ^ in 
nopram ufque memoriam, fays Tacitus^ who was born 
at the latter End of Claudius*^ Reign ; fo that Togo- 
dumnits was probably dead before Cogidubnus had his 
Government conferred upon hiiri. 
1 call it his Government, for tho’ by the Letter *R* 
{landing in the Infcription with a Point both before 
and after it, by which it plainly denotes an entire 
Word of itfelf, it may feem that it was intended for 
COGIDVBNI REGIS, and I believe was fo 
in refped of his quondam Dignity, yet it is evident, that 
he had condefcended to take the Title of L E G A- 
TVS AVGVSTI IN BRITANNIA from 
Claudius and that too muft have been only over thofe 
People that he had given him the Government of, 
Aulus Plautius, OJiorius Scapula^ Didius Gallusy Avi- 
tus Veranius^ and Suetonius Paullinus, having the fu- 
preme Command fucceflively about this Time in this 
liland, the fecond and lafl of which are called exprefs- 
ly Legati by Tacitus K Tlie Legati Cdijaris or Ait- 
gujii were thofe, qui Cafaribus fubditas regebant Pro- 
vincias. 
The fixth Line has loft at the Beginning the Letters 
COLL E, but fo much remains of the Word as makes 
it to have been indubitably, when entire, COLLE- 
G I V M, and the following Letters are an Abbrevia- 
tion of fabrorvm/ 
Thefe Colleges of Artificers were very ancient at 
Rome, as ancient as their fecond King Numa Pompilius, 
if 
f Lib. xii. Ann. cap. 32, 5 c Agric. cap 15. 
