Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 1 (of 3), History and ethnologySkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
History
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 three bodies of infantry were the Victores Juniores Britanniciani,
the Primani Juniores, and Secundani Juniores. The six bodies of
cavalry, the Equites Catafractarii Juniores, the Equites Scutarii
Aureliaci, the Equites Honoriani Seniores, the Equites Stablesiani,
the Equites Syri, and the Equites Taifali. The Equites Catafractarii
were stationed at Morbium, supposed by Horsley to be Templeburgh on
the south bank of the river Don. The provinces are twice given in the
Notitia, and the order is the same in both—Maxima Cæsariensis,
Valentia, Britannia Prima, Britannia Secunda, Flavia Cæsariensis. The
position usually assigned to these provinces rests entirely upon the
authority of the spurious Richard of Cirencester, and involves the
supposition that when Constantine divided the provinces into four, he
substituted the name of Maxima Cæsariensis for that of Lower Britain,
and divided Upper Britain into three provinces, forming the district
of Wales into a separate province called Britannia Secunda; but if the
order in the Notitia is geographical, and proceeds from north to
south, Maxima Cæsariensis is the most northerly, then Valentia and
Britannia Prima extend across the island from west to east. Then south
of them Britannia Secunda, and farther south Flavia Cæsariensis; and
thus, before Valentia was formed, Maxima Cæsariensis and Britannia
Prima would represent what had been Lower Britain, and the Dux
Britanniæ would command the troops within it; Britannia Secunda and
Flavia Cæsariensis what had been Upper Britain, and the Comes tractus
maritimi, the troops within it. The new province would be formed in
the west to meet the invasion in a new quarter from a new people, the
Scots; and a new commander, the Comes Britanniarum, or Count of the
two Britannias, would be placed there to protect the western frontier.
Footnote 96:
Incursantes Pictos et Scotos Maximus strenue superavit.—Prosper.
Aquit. _Gratian._ iv.
Footnote 97:
... Quæ Saxona frenat
Vel Scotum legio ... (xxxi. 89).
Me quoque vicinis pereuntem gentibus, inquit,
Munivit Stilichon.... (xxii. 250).
Venit et extremis legio prætenta Britannis
Quæ Scoto dat fræna truci, ferroque notatas
Perlegit exsangues Picto moriente figuras
... Ne tela timerem
Scotica, ne Pictum tremerem, ne litore toto
Prospicerem dubiis venturum Saxona ventis (xxii. 253).
Footnote 98:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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