. The Picture of Newcastle upon Tyne, : being a brief historical & descriptive guide to the principal buildings, streets, public institutions, manufactures, curiosities, &c. within that town & its neighbourhood for twelve miles round: and including an account of the Roman wall, and a detailed history of the coal trade .. . aidullorum civium Ro-manorum equitum mill,sub AntUtio Advento, Legato Augusti TRIB. tore, F. Titianm tribunus# # # R dat dedicatque rite. All these altars appear to be oi the same date, fromthe mention of either the tribune Titianus or the V
. The Picture of Newcastle upon Tyne, : being a brief historical & descriptive guide to the principal buildings, streets, public institutions, manufactures, curiosities, &c. within that town & its neighbourhood for twelve miles round: and including an account of the Roman wall, and a detailed history of the coal trade .. . aidullorum civium Ro-manorum equitum mill,sub AntUtio Advento, Legato Augusti TRIB. tore, F. Titianm tribunus# # # R dat dedicatque rite. All these altars appear to be oi the same date, fromthe mention of either the tribune Titianus or the Var-dulians. This Titianus might possibly be the sameas one, that was Procurator of Alexandria, and whomCaracalla put to death with one of his favorites calledTheocritus. The Varduli were a people of Spain, and are men-tioned by Mela, 1. hi. c. 1. and Pliny, 1. v. c. £ names are also found in three inscriptions, be-longing to Rochester in Northumberland, one ofwhich is dedicated to M. AVRELIVS SEVERVSANTONINVS; and another to the God of theSun for the health and the safety of the emperor ANTONINVS. They appear tohave been a part of the twentieth legion, which, fromthe following inscription, as well as from those be-longing to Gordiai/s time, was either wholly or inpart occasionally quartered 154 COUNTRY SEATS AND VILLAGES, The principal buildings, within the walls, were thearmamentaria and principia, the rebuilding of which isrecorded on a stone, bearing the following inscription,and now in the Dean and Chapters library in Dur-ham. IMP. CJESAR. M. ANTONIVS GORDIANVS. P. F. AVG. PRINCIPIA. ET. ARM AMEN TARIA. CONLAPSA. RESTITV IT. PER. MECILIVM. FVSCVM. LEG. AVG PRPR. CVRANTE. M. AVR. QVIRINO. PR. COH. i. L. Gordian was emperor, and M. Fuscuslieutenant governor of Britain, these barracks andmagazines, which had fallen into decay 7 were re*paired by A. Quirinus, prefect of the first cohortof the Gordian legion. The infantry, which composed a Roma
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