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  • Rereading the Secundinus Stone from Vindolanda

  • David Woods
  • Journal:
    Britannia / Volume 55 / November 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 February 2025, pp. 299-302
    Print publication:
    November 2024
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  • Meyer, Mullen, and Vanhala analysed the inscription SECVNDINVS CACOR accompanying the carving of a phallus on a stone excavated at Vindolanda and explained CACOR as the present passive of the verb cacare ‘to shit out’. I suggest that CACOR may have been intended in abbreviation of CACORVM, the neuter genitive plural of the adjective cacus, a transliteration of the Greek κακός ‘evil’, and that the phallus is depicted ejaculating over this word to symbolise its apotropaic power over evil.