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village upon the Foffe road , about a mile north eaft 
from Bath ; the coemetery is fuppofed to have lain 
at or near that place (i ), where, as Dr. Stukeley ob- 
ferves, there was alfo a Roman camp (2). 
2 . The next words in the infcription, per inso- 
lentiam ervtvm, are attended with no fmall diffi- 
culty. Some perfons, as I was informed, had taken 
the firft letter of the laft word for a d, which led 
them to read it dirutum ; tho there is no appearance 
of an 1 after the d, nor indeed room for it upon the 
flone, to fupport that reading. But on viewing the 
caft, the perpendicular ftroke of that letter feemed 
to me to be carried fomewhat higher than the other 
letters of that line, which flood before it. And this 
occafioned me to fufped:, that it might have been 
delisned for an abbreviation of the two letters d r, as 
O ..... 7 
in another of our Britifh infcription s, where thofe 
two letters are fo combined in the word bLECTi (3). 
But having confulted Mr. Hoare concerning it, he 
informs me, that upon a reinfpedtion he thinks it to 
be an e ; for which reafon I have writen it erutum. 
However, this will make no difference in the fenfe j 
for fo Tacitus ufes eruere for diruere , when he fais : 
Cerialis poflero die coloniam Trevirorum ingrejftus eft , 
avido milite eruendae civitatis (4). 
When this infcription was laft before the Society, 
a learned gentleman then prefent was pleafed to query, 
whether the words per infolentiam might not here 
fignify 
(1) See Mufgrave , Jul. Vital. Epitaph, p . 172. 
( 2) Itiner. curiof pag. 140 . 
(3) Britann. Roman. Torh t XIII. 
(\) Hijl. Lib. iv. cap. 72. 
