[389] It is possible the word may be a contraction for ordinatus (appointed), and not for ordinarius.
[390] The Roman Wall: a Historical, etc., Account of the Barrier of the Lower Isthmus, extending from the Tyne to the Solway, p. 228.
[391] Vita Agricolæ, cap. 36 (Orelli’s edit. vol. ii. p. 441).
[392] Stuart, in his Caledonia Romana, p. 340, gives a copy of a legionary tablet found at Castlecary, which states that the first Tungrian Cohort had erected 1000 paces (mille passus) of the wall.
[393] Horsley’s Britannia Romana, p. 205. Stuart’s Caledonia Romana, p. 164.
[394] According to Horsley, it was probably under the reign of Marcus Aurelius that the Tungrian Cohort became stationed at Castle-steeds, in Cumberland, where they erected an altar to Jupiter. Lastly (he adds), this Cohort settled at Housesteads, where we have six or seven of their inscriptions under four or five different commanders. Here they seem to have continued till the lowest time of the empire. The Notitia places this Cohort at Borcovicus (Housesteads).—Britannia Romana, p. 89.
[395] United Service Journal for 1841, vol. iii. p. 124.
[396] See Eckhel’s Doctrina Nummorum Veterum, vol. i. p. 8, and vol. vi. p. 495.
[397] Inscriptiones Romanæ, p. 68, Fig. 1 and Fig. 2; and p. 269, Fig. 3.
[398] The name of Domitian (see the plate) is erased from the inscription—a practice which has been followed sometimes in relation to the names of other Roman tyrants besides him; but the name of the consul on the stone fixes the date and reign.