[140]. Smith’s Dictionary of Biography and Mythology.
[141]. Decurion, a commander of a troop of ten men.
[142]. This and the two subsequent cuts are drawn to twice the usual scale.
[143]. For further information on this interesting subject the reader is referred to two admirable papers by Mr. C. Roach Smith, and Mr. Thomas Wright, in the second volume of the Journal of the British Archæological Association.
[144]. Vows in Trouble, by John Horsley, A.M. London: Printed for Richard Ford, at the Angel, in the Poultry, near Stocks market. And sold by R. Akenhead, Bookseller, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1729.—At the time Horsley published this book, he was engaged in the preparation of the Britannia Romana.
[145]. Smith’s Collectanea Antiqua i. 21.
[146]. The first cohort of the Vangiones were in Britain in the time of Hadrian, from whom some of them, in 132, had a discharge from the army, with the privilege to marry. They were from Belgic Gaul, and were a long time quartered at Risingham, at which station eight of their tribunes have left their names on inscriptions.
Hist. Nor. II. iii. 183.
[147]. See Remains of Roman Art in Cirencester, 78.