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===Milestones=== A [[milestone]] from [[Carlisle]] with his name on it suggests that the whole of [[Roman Britain]] was in Carausius's grasp.<ref>Frere, ''Britannia'', p. 327-328</ref> The inscription reads (with expansions in square brackets) "IMP[eratori] C[aesari] M[arco] | AVR[elio] MAVS[aeo] | CARAVSIO P[io] F[elici] | INVICTO AVG[usto]", this translates as "For the Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius Pius Felix Invictus Augustus".<ref name="RIB 2291. Milestone of Carausius">{{cite web|title=RIB 2291. Milestone of Carausius|url=http://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/2291|website=Roman Inscriptions of Britain|access-date=26 January 2015}}</ref> The title indicates he considered himself equal to the [[Tetrarchy]]'s ''senior'' emperors (''[[augustus (honorific)|Augusti]]''), rather than their subordinate junior emperors (''[[caesar (title)|Caesares]]''). The milestone was reused in about 306, burying the first inscription and adding a new one at the other end, which translates as "For Flavius Valerius Constantinus, most noble Caesar" and refers to [[Constantius Chlorus|Marcus Flavius Valerius Constantius Herculius Augustus]] (Constantius I).<ref name="RIB 2292. Milestone of Constantine I">{{cite web|title=RIB 2292. Milestone of Constantine I|url=http://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/2292|website=Roman Inscriptions of Britain|access-date=26 January 2015}}</ref> Some more text on the stone, probably a continuation of the Carausius inscription after a gap because it is orientated the same way, was chiselled away, presumably when the stone was reused; the traces remaining suggest it included (translated) "... the Emperor ...".
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