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From Readings in English History Drawn From The Original Sources by Edward P. Cheyney, Ginn and Company; Boston; 1908; p. 31.

Elf. Editor comments in brackets

[31]

Roman Inscriptions in Britain.1

Of the many hundred Roman inscriptions on stone tablets, tiles, altars, and metal plates, the following have been chosen to represent the most familiar classes: those found along the line of the wall and recording the progress of its construction, those found on dedicatory altars, those recording the performance of some vow, and those placed on funeral monuments. They are naturally most often of a religious or memorial character: the more ordinary affairs of life unfortunately left no such record.



21. Typical
inscriptions
In honor of the Emperor Cæsar Titus Ælius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, the father of his country. A company of the Twentieth Legion, the Valiant-Victorious, executed 4411 paces.



On a house-
hold altar
To Jupiter best and greatest, and to the gods and goddesses who preside over the household, and to the penates, for the preservation of the health of himself and his family, Publius Ælius Marcianus, prefect of a cohort, dedicated and consecrated this altar.



An altar to
Mithras
To the god best and greatest, the unconquerable Mithras, lord of ages, Publius Proculinus, centurion, for himself and his son Proculus, performs his vow willingly and dutifully, in the consulship of our lords Gallus and Volusianus.



On a tomb-
stone
To the gods of the shades. For Julia Veneria, aged thirty-three years, Alexander, her most attached husband, and Julius Belicianus, her son, caused this monument to be made.

NOTES

1   From Thomas Wright, The Celt, the Romans, and the Saxon, pp. 127, 317, 326, 380.





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