It is not unnatural that a soldier while bemoaning the loss of a beloved wife in a land of strangers, should so dwell upon her virtues as to conceive that hers was a faultless character. Gruter gives an inscription which nearly resembles this. It was erected by Marcus Aurelius Paullus— CONIVGI INCOMPARABILI CVM QVA VIXIT ANNIS XXVII SINE VLLA QVERELA To his incomparable wife, with whom he had lived twenty-seven years without having had a single squabble. ‘This couple,’ says Mr. Akerman, ‘must for ever throw into the shade all the candidates for the Dunmow flitch.’ [Illustration: Sepulchral Slab to the Memory of Cornelius Victor] At Chesterholm is a slab which, though suffering from exposure to the weather, is still distinct:— DIIS MANIBVS CORN[ELIVS] VICTOR S. C. (_Sibi Constitvit_) MIL[ES] ANN[OS] XXVI CIV[IS] PANN[ONIAE] FIL[IVS] SATVRNI- NI P.P VIX[IT] ANN[OS] LV. D[IES] XI CONIVX PROCVRAVI To the divine Manes; Cornelius Victor ordered this to be erected over himself. He was a soldier twenty-six years, a citizen of Pannonia, and the very dutiful (P.P. _pientissime_) son of Saturninus. He lived fifty-five years and eleven days. I, his wife, saw his order executed. The tomb-stone to a young physician has already been given, page 227. CENTURIAL STONES. [Sidenote: CENTURIAL STONES.] The only other class of inscribed stones to which reference will now be made, is that of centurial stones. The centurions seem to have been in the habit of placing a common stone, inscribed with the name of their _century_—company or troop, in that section of the Wall which they had built. The letters are usually very rudely cut; sometimes they are enclosed in a border, as in the annexed example, which, probably found in the vicinity of CILURNUM, is now at Alnwick Castle. [Illustration: Centurial Stone, Coh. V. Cæcilii Proculi, Cilurnum] COH[ORS] V > (_centuria_) CAECILI[I] PROCVLI The fifth cohort. The century of Cæcilius Proculus.