220 - FROM THE HELLESPONT 
CHAP. The late Mr. JViUis left at the Dardanelles two 
VII. . 
' marUeSy with inscriptions, which are now m the 
»ionT^' possession of the Custom-House officer. These 
were offered for sale to us. Mr. Willis, it is 'said, 
found them in Troas ; probably in Alexandria 
Troas. One of them had been the capital of a 
pillar, and was converted by the Turks into a 
mortar: the other exhibited only a broken mass 
of marble, of an irregular form. Upon the first 
we read, 
FORTISSIMOETINVICTISS 
IMOCAESARIDNGALER 
AVR • VAL • MAXIMIANO 
PRINCIPI IVBENTVTIS 
This inscription belongs to the latter end of the 
third century ; Galerius Maximianus having been 
Consul in the year 294. The title of Ccesar was 
conferred upon him by Diocletian. The letters 
DN are the usual abbreviation of Dominus. The 
title Princeps Jubentutis, or Juventutis, was used 
in the time of the Republic ; and we find it con- 
tinned through almost all the Emperors, until the 
time of Constantine: " symbolum FUxuRiE sue- 
CESsiONis," as it is expressed by Spanheim\ 
In what remains of the other inscription, we find 
mention made of the Tribunus Militum of the third 
(1) Z)e Prcrst. ct Lh. Nxon. Diss, 7. 
