and service in war, had been excellent rulers. Such service as the Albanians for a long time rendered to the Turkish empire, their predecessors likewise rendered to the Roman imperial state, when this had arrived at similar disorder and similar barbarism. Only, the Illyrian regeneration of the Roman imperial order may not be conceived of as a national reorganisation; it was simply the propping up, by soldiers, of an empire utterly reduced through the misgovernment of rulers of gentler birth. Italy had wholly ceased to be military; and history does not acknowledge the ruler's right without the warrior's power. Footnotes. [118: The baptistery is perhaps the tomb of the emperor.] [119: That there were no legions stationed on the Danube itself in the year 50, follows from Tacitus, _Ann._ xii. 29; otherwise it would not have been necessary to send a legion thither to receive the accession of the Suebi. The laying out also of the Claudian Savaria suits better, if the town was then Norican, than if it already belonged to Pannonia; and, as the assignment of this town to Pannonia coincides certainly as to time with the like severance of Carnuntum and with the transference of the legion thither, all this may probably have taken place only in the period after Claudius. The small number also of inscriptions of Italici found in the camps of the Danube (_Eph. Ep._ v. p. 225) points to their later origin. Certainly there have been found in Carnuntum some epitaphs of soldiers of the 15th legion which, from their outward form and from the absence of cognomen, appear to be older (Hirschfeld, _Arch. Epigraph. Mittheilungen_, v. 217). Such determinations of date cannot claim full certainty, where a decade is concerned; nevertheless it must be conceded that the former arguments also furnish no full proofs, and the translocation may have begun earlier, possibly under Nero. For the construction or extension of this camp by Vespasian we have the evidence of the inscription, attesting such a structure, of Carnuntum, dating from the year 73 (Hirschfeld, _l.c._).] [120: We know whole sets of Thracian, Getic, Dacian names of places and persons. Remarkable in a linguistic point of view is a group of personal names compounded with _-centhus_: _Bithicenthus_, _Zipacenthus_, _Disacenthus_, _Tracicenthus_, _Linicenthus_ (_Bull. de Corr. Hell._ vi. 179), of which the first two also frequently occur isolated in their other half (_Bithus_, _Zipa_). A similar group is formed by the compounds with _-poris_, such as _Mucaporis_ (as Thracian, _Bull._ _l.c._, as Dacian in numerous cases), _Cetriporis_, _Rhaskyporis_, _Bithoporis_, _Dirdiporis_.]