Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 1 (of 3), History and ethnologySkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
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Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 1 (of 3), History and ethnology
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
The only authorities for the events in the reign of Antoninus are two
short passages. One, the passage of Pausanias, referred to in Note
^{63}, and the other of Julius Capitolinus, who says (_De Anton. Pio_,
5), ‘Per legatos suos plurima bella gessit. Nam et Britannos per
Lollium Urbicum legatum vicit, alio muro cespiticio submotis barbaris
ducto.’ The expression ‘submotis barbaris’ proves that this wall now
formed the boundary between the barbarian or independent tribes and
the Roman province. It is analogous to the expression used by Aelius
Spartianus of ‘qui barbaros Romanosque divideret,’ in stating the
building of Hadrian’s wall. It does not necessarily imply an actual
driving north of the people, but only the extension of the province,
so that the part hostile to the Roman power came to be farther
removed.
Chalmers has treated the Roman wars in Scotland very strangely. His
narrative of the actions of Lollius Urbicus extends over seventy
closely printed pages; while for all this the actual authority is
comprised within exactly fourteen words of Julius Capitolinus. The
campaigns of Severus, by far more important, occupy just six pages;
and yet for these we have the detailed narrative of two independent
historians.
Footnote 71:
The principal stations on the wall were at the following places—viz.,
West Kilpatrick, Duntocher, Castlehill, East Kilpatrick, Bemulie,
Kirkintilloch, Auchindavy, Barhill, Westerwood, Castlecary, and Rough
Castle; and as they are in general constructed partly of stone, and
some of them connected with baths and more elaborate works, they are
probably to be attributed to a later age. See a paper by David Milne
Home, Esq., in the _Trans. Roy. Soc._ vol. xxvii. part i. p. 39, for
the latest account of the wall.
Footnote 72:
Et adversus Britannos quidem Calphurnius Agricola missus
est.—(Capitolin. Mar. Aur. 8.)
Footnote 73:
In Britannia, in Germania, et in Dacia imperium ejus recusantibus
provincialibus, quae omnia ista per duces sedata sunt.—(Lamprid.
_Comm._ c. 13. Conf. Dion. 72. 8.)
Footnote 74:
Dio, 75, 76, 77; Herodian, iii. 7; Capitolin. Clod. Alb. c. 9;
Eutropius, viii. 18.
Footnote 75:
From Magh, a plain. The same word seems to enter into the name
Vacomagi.
Footnote 76:
Colonel Gurwood’s _Speeches of the Duke of Wellington_, vol. ii. p.
729.
Footnote 77:
At Habitancum, a station on Watling Street, on the south bank of the
Rede, inscriptions have been found showing that Severus restored the
gate and repaired the walls of the station. See Bruce’s _Roman Wall_,
p. 384.
Footnote 78:
These camps are as follows—viz., Wardykes, near Keithock; Raedykes,
near Stonehaven; Normandykes, on the Dee; and Raedykes, on the Ythan.
Footnote 79:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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