[Footnote 123: _Ibid_. II. 18. 23. See p. 47.] [Footnote 124: Virgil, 'Georg.' III. 24.] [Footnote 125: Virgil, 'Eccl.' I. 65; Horace, 'Od.' I. 21. 13, 35. 30, III. 5. 3; Tibullus, IV. 1. 147; Propertius, IV. 3. 7.] [Footnote 126: Suetonius, 'De XII. Caes.' IV. 19.] [Footnote 127: The lofty spur of the Chiltern Hills which overhangs the church of Ellsborough is traditionally the site of his tomb.] [Footnote 128: This whole episode is from 'Dio Cassius' (lib. xxxix. Section 50).] [Footnote 129: He places Cirencester in their territory, while both Bath and Winchester belonged to the Belgae. To secure Winchester, where they would be on the line of the tin-trade road (see p. 36), would be the first object of the Romans if they did land at Portsmouth. Their further steps would depend upon the disposition of the British armies advancing to meet them,--the final objective of the campaign being Camelodune, the capital of the sons of Cymbeline.] [Footnote 130: This is stated by both Geoffrey of Monmouth and Matthew of Westminster.] [Footnote 131: For three centuries this legion was quartered at Caerleon-upon-Usk, and the Twentieth at Chester. See Mommsen, 'Roman Provinces,' p. 174.] [Footnote 132: This was the honorary title of several legions; as there are several "Royal" regiments.] [Footnote 133: Tac, 'Hist.' III. 44.] [Footnote 134: The Flavian family was of very humble origin.] [Footnote 135: Bede, from Suetonius, tells us that Vespasian with his legion fought in Britain thirty-two battles and took twenty towns, besides subduing the Isle of Wight ('Sex. Aet.' A.D. 80).] [Footnote 136: If the Romans were advancing eastward from the Dobunian territory it may have been the Loddon. Mommsen cuts the knot in true German fashion by refusing to identify the Dobuni of Ptolemy with those of Dion, and placing the latter in Kent on his own sole authority. ('Roman Provinces,' p. 175.)] [Footnote 137: [Greek: dusdiexoda.]] [Footnote 138: See p. 139.] [Footnote 139: 'Orosius,' VII. 5.] [Footnote 140: A victorious Roman general was commonly thus hailed by his troops after any signal victory. But by custom this could only be done once in the same campaign.] [Footnote 141: Suet. v. 21.] [Footnote 142: Dio Cassius, lx. 23. The boy, who was the child of Messalina, had previously been named _Germanicus_.] [Footnote 143: Suet. v. 28.] [Footnote 144: Suet. v. 21.] [Footnote 145: Tac., 'Ann.' xii. 56.] [Footnote 146: Dio Cassius, lx. 30.] [Footnote 147: Suet. v. 24.] [Footnote 148: Dio Cassius, lx. 30.] [Footnote 149: Eutropius, vii. 13.] [Footnote 150: Muratori, Thes. mcii. 6.] [Footnote 151: 'De XII. Caesaribus,' v. 28.] [Footnote 152: Dio Cassius, lx. 23.] [Footnote 153: See Haverfield in 'Authority and Archaeology,' p. 319] [Footnote 154: 'Laus Claudii' (Burmann, 'Anthol.' ii. 8).] [Footnote 155: See p. 152.] [Footnote 156: The inscription runs thus: