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XIV. Observations on an Altar, with a Greek Inscription, at Corbridge, in Northumberland. By the Rev. Dr. Pettingal
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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The person who communicated this inscription to the Society a few years ago, informed us that it was found about Corbridge in Northumberland, near the wall; where, as there were many Roman legions, particularly the Legio Secunda Augusta, and Vicesima Victrix ordered thither, the first from Isca Silurum, the other from Deva, or Chester, in order to keep the wall in repair, and defend it. We can make no doubt of its being Roman, notwithstanding it is written in Greek characters; for this manner of writing inscriptions was an affectation frequently to be met with in the Lower Empire, or after the time of Constantine; and was sometimes carried so far, as that when the language was entirely Latin, the character was Greek, and vice versa: examples of which are to be found in Fabretti, Inscript. p. 390, and 465.
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page 92 note [a] Ptolemy.
page 92 note [b] Cumberland, p. 885.
page 92 note [c] Index eorum quæ ad grammaticam rem pertinent, Litera L.
page 92 note * See the plate.
page 94 note [d] Inscrip. cap. ii. p. 107, in a note upon p. 76.
page 94 note [e] De Ling. Lat. lib. v.
page 95 note [f] See Dolabella, p. 293, in the Authores rei agrariae five finium regundorum Edit. Paris, 1554, 40.
page 95 note [g] See the above Authores Agrariae, p. 345, Imp. Tib. Caesar de sepulchris.
page 96 note [h] Lib. v. cap. 4. memb. 3. p. 607.
page 97 note [h] See Fabretti, Inscript. cap. ii. p. 89. edit. Rom. 1699. and cap. ii. p. 86, n° 161, where is the same kind of ornament between the letters of the same word, where it makes part of the end of one line, and the beginning of the next; as
which is exactly the case in the word ΜЄCΟΡ, in this inscription.
page 97 note [i] 
, Gruter 1127, 28, 29, &c.