. The Archaeological journal. he unconquerable god Hercules. Lucius iEmi-iianus Salvanus, tribune of the first cohort of the Vangiones,(erected this) willingly and deservedly, in discharge ofa vow. Personal prowess being a qualification of considerableimportance to a soldier, Hercules was popular in the Romanarmy, and we find several altars dedicated to him. The formula vslm, at the close of an inscription, is, withoccasional variations, of common occurrence upon Romanaltars. Whilst we deplore the folly of the idolatry of theRomans, we cannot but admire their readiness in acknow-ledging the ob
. The Archaeological journal. he unconquerable god Hercules. Lucius iEmi-iianus Salvanus, tribune of the first cohort of the Vangiones,(erected this) willingly and deservedly, in discharge ofa vow. Personal prowess being a qualification of considerableimportance to a soldier, Hercules was popular in the Romanarmy, and we find several altars dedicated to him. The formula vslm, at the close of an inscription, is, withoccasional variations, of common occurrence upon Romanaltars. Whilst we deplore the folly of the idolatry of theRomans, we cannot but admire their readiness in acknow-ledging the obligations under which they supposed them-selves to be laid by their gods. In the mention of the Vangiones on this altar, as well ason the slab already noticed, we have an illustration of theRoman policy of prosecuting their conquests by means oftribes already subjugated. The Vangiones were stationedat Risingham, the Varduli and Lingones at High Rochester,and, along the line of the Wall, were troops of Spaniards, VOL. XII. O G. n > i i HE ? ROMAN ANTIQUITIES AT CAMBRIDGE. 223 Moors, Germans and others. The Britons themselves weredrafted off in large numbers to the other ends of the earth,or perhaps to keep in order the very tribes and nations whowere doing this service for their own countrymen. By thismeans a single legion of Roman troops were sufficient tohold in check the whole of North Britain. This, which wasthe sixth legion, was stationed at York, whence they could,from the nature of the country, on any alarm, expand them-selves like a fan over the region to the north, or concentratethemselves on any position of the mural barrier which wasexposed to danger. One other inscription only from this station shall detainus ; it is on a monumental slab. It reads—D[ns] M[anibus] BlESCIUS DiOVICUS FILING SILE VIXIT ANNUM UNUM ET DIE[s] viginti unum.— Blescius Diovicus erects this to the divinemanes of his daughter ; she lived one year and twenty-onedays. The bust in t
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