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in the Table of Britain ( a ). There was another in 
Nottinghamjhire, which the Itinerary calls AD 
PONTEM ( 'b ), on the Account t of a Bridge laid 
over the Trent at that Place. And what appears more 
exa&ly parallel with the prefent Cafe, in the fame 
Itinerary we meet with MAGNA (c), which fome 
have taken for Old Radnor ; but Wlr.\Hor[ley fixes it at 
Kenchefter in Herefordjhire , wherein he is followed 
by JVejfelingius ( d). Now in each of thefe Inftances 
CASTRA, or fome equivalent Word, muft necef- 
farily be underftood ; and probably at firft the ufual 
Names were CASTRA AD ANSAM, CASTRA 
AD PONTEM, and CASTRA MAGNA, tho after- 
wards the Word CASTRA was for Brevity omited; 
as in common Speech we often find the Names of 
Places fo fhortened, that it is difficult to trace them 
back to their Original. And this Infcription might 
be addreffed to DEO MARTI ALATORVM, as 
the topical Deity of the Place. 
Thefecond Line, DVM. CENSORINVS, feems 
to contain two Names of the Perfon, who paid this 
Vow to the Deity here mentioned. Tho Roman 
Citizens had ufually three Names, called Rr renomen , 
Nomen, and Cognomen ; yet very often two only are 
expreffed : and thofe either the firft and fecond, as 
Quintus Horatius [Flaccus] ; the firft and third, as 
Marcus [Portius] Cato ; or the fecond and third, as 
fCaius] Cornelius Tacitus. Befides, the Order of 
thefe feveral Names did [not always continue the 
fame. 
(a) Ibid. Pag. 505. (b) Iter vi. Ibid. pag. 381. (c) Iter 
xn. Ibid . pag, 457. (d) Vetera Rm, Itiner. p.485. 
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