C 34-3 ] 
This altar is there faid to have been eredfed in the 
confulfhip of T. Statilius Taurus and L. CaJJius Lon- 
ginus ; that is, in the year of Rome 763, as Pig hi us 
places it (1) , or 76-4., according to cardinal Nor is (2).* 
which thews it to have been done, while Augujtus 
was yet living. And that the fame practice conti- 
nued in the time of the following emperors, is evident 
from feveral of our Britifh infcriptions, where the like 
compliment is paid to them So we meet with Nu- 
men domini nojiri Augufti , Numen imperatoris , and 
Numen principis optimi (3), with other variations in 
the manner of expredion. From hence therefore, I 
think, we may conclude, that by the words 1 nrtuti et 
numini Augujii in this infcription, not only the pro- 
wefs or fortitude of the emperor then reigning, but 
likewife the divine power here afcribed to him, is 
called in aid for the defence and prefervation of this 
coemetery. As to the form of the expreffion here 
ufed, things were faid diis reddi , which were offered 
or confecrated to them. Thus Suetonius fais : Cave- 
batur , ut in pofterum Jimili modo exta Marti redde- 
rentur (4). The horizontal ftroke over the letter n 
appears on the ffone, which is often omited or de- 
faced. 
4. The perfon, who condu&ed this affair, is called 
caivs severivsj the former of which names oc- 
curs very frequently, and the latter feveral times, in 
Gruter. But the following word emeritvs, tho it 
be 
(\) Annal. Roman. Tom. in. p. 539. 
(2) Cenotaph. Pifan. Differt. l. pag. 52. 
( 2 ) Britan. Roman. Northumb. Lxxx. Cumberl, Li, Lii. 
( 4) In vit. Auguji. cap, 1. 
