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And as* to the lnfc*riptlon, tlie abbreviated word' 
yic. may 'doubtlefs hand for vicfit, the letter x. be- 
ing refolve.d .into cs. . And fo we find the word vie- 
Jit for vixit, writen' at length in Horfley (i). But 
the name of the legion here mentioned, which is 
called quartadechna gemina^ may feem to be attended 
with no fmall difficulty. The Ifone happens to be 
cracked quite tliro, juft acrofs the numeral figures, 
which exprefs the number of the legion ; but in fuch 
a manner, as no ways to^ deface or obfeure them. 
Now we learn from Tacitus, that four Roman le- 
gions were fent into Britain in the reign of the em- 
peror Claudius. Two of thefe were the twentieth 
and the fourteenth, both which are mentioned in 
thefe inferiptions. And the former of them remained 
here the greateft part of the time at leaft, that the 
Romans continued in pofieftion of the ifiand. But 
the latter was ordered hence by Nero, then fent back 
by Vitellius, and being recalled again at the begining 
of Vefpafian’s reign, does not appear to have returned 
any more, “ And that happening (as Horfiey ob- 
ferves). before the opportunity or humour of ereeft- 
ing inferiptions obtained ; it is not to be wondered 
at, that we do not find this fourteenth legion • 
mentioned in any infeription (2).” However, this 
Wroxeter ftone gives us both the name of that le- 
gion, and an additional title of gemina fubjoined to 
it j the origin of which title feems to have been 
owing to Pompey, who had, as Caefar fais, among 
( 1 ) Cumherl. Ixx. 
(2) Page 80. 
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