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4- The title gubernator , or pilot, I do not remem- 
ber to have met with in any other Roman infcription. 
And notwithftanding the hr ft line is placed at fome 
diftance from the reft; yet it may, I think, connect 
with them, without fnpplying the word j'acrum , in 
the following manner : Matribus Africis , Italicis , 
Germanicis , Marcus Minucius , etc. r cotum folvit liben- 
tijjime merito. An inftance of the like kind may be 
feen in Horjley , ending with the fame letters, vs llm, 
which he reads in the fame manner (i). 
It appears, by an infcription in Gruter (2), and re- 
publifhed by Dr. Gale (3), that this legion was trans- 
ported from Germany to Britain in the reign of the 
emperor Hadrian , under the command of Marcus 
Pontius ; who is there called, Tnbunus militum legio- 
nis Jextae viclricis, cum qua cx Germania in Britan- 
niam tranfiit. The infcription therefore upon this 
altar at fork may, as I apprehend, refer to that 
voiage ; and intimate to us, that Marcus Minucius , 
by whom it was eredted, was then pilot to the le- 
gion. It is probable indeed, as Horjley obferves (4), 
that 
(1) Scotland xxvii. Retnefius , Clajp 1. num. 3. mds the let- 
ters I.L. laetus libens, and cites for it an infcription in Gruter , 
pag. mlxxxiv, 4' which ends with the abbreviated words, laet. 
Lin. fecit. And there is another infcription publifhed by Span, 
in his Mifcell. erud. ant. p. 107 ; and afterwards by Fabretti, pag. 
690, n. hi. which has the words laetvs. libens. at length. 
However Reinejius adds: V ocabulum pofitivi geminatum infert fuper- 
lativum ; fo eb. bene bene , is the fame as optime ; and ll. may 
ltand for lubentijfime or libcntiffime. And in like manner aim, is 
read in the fuperlative meritijfimo. 
(2) Pag. cccclvii. 2. 
(3) Antonin. Iter Britain . pag. 47. 
( 4 ) Ba^. 79. 
