VIX[IT] AN[NIS] XXV
Sacred to the gods of the shades below.
To Anicius
Ingenuus,
physician
in ordinary, of cohort
the first of the Tungrians.
He lived twenty-five years.
From an inscription found at Castlecary, it appears that this cohort of Tungrians built one thousand paces of the Antonine Wall in Scotland. They were from about Tongres, on the banks of the Mæse, in Belgic Gaul. Their rank, as a milliary cohort, conferred on them the dangerous honour of advancing in the van of the army to battle, and their acknowledged valour probably procured for them the appointment to this exposed and dangerous post.
THE NAME ASCERTAINED.