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it was a Military Trade, and they were such as provided Tents and other Equipage for War, called by the Ro∣mans Centones, or else those whose Business it was to quench the Fires which the Enemies En∣gines kindled in the Camp. Vigetius in his Fourth Book speaking of an Engine used in the
Camp to make a close Gallery or Fortification, says, that for fear it should be set on Fire, they covered it on the Out-side with raw or fresh Hides or Centones, i. e. certain old Stuffs fit to resist Fire and Arrows: For Julius Caesar in the Third Book of his Commentaries of the Civil War, says, that the Soldiers used these Centones to defend themselves from their Enemies Darts The Colleges of the Centonarii were often join∣ed with the Dendrophori, and the Masters of the Timber-works, and the other Engines of War, called Fabri, as may be seen by an Inscription of a Decurion of that College.
AUR. QUINTIANUS DEC.
COLL. FAB. & CENT.
That is to say, Aurelius Quintianus, Decurion of the College at the Masters of the Engines and Centonaries.