Early Britain—Roman BritainConybeare, John William Edward
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Early Britain—Roman Britain
Conybeare, John William Edward
Great Britain -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.
NEPTVNO. ET. MINERVAE TEMPLVM _pro_ SALVTE. DO _mus_ DIVINAE
_ex_ AVCTORITATE. _Ti_. CLAVD _Co_ GIDVBNI. R. LEGATI. AVG.
IN. BRIT. _Colle_ GIVM. FABRO. ET. QVI. IN. E. . . . . .
D.S.D. DONANTE. AREAM. _Pud_ ENTE. PVDENTINI. FIL_iae_
(The italics are almost certain restoration of illegible letters.)]
[Footnote 157: See p. 256.]
[Footnote 158: Claudia, the British Princess mentioned by Martial
as making a distinguished Roman marriage, may very probably be his
daughter.]
[Footnote 159: See p. 130.]
[Footnote 160: Thus in St. Luke ii. we find Cyrenius _Pro-praetor_
([Greek: hêgemôn]) of Syria, but in Acts xviii. Gallio _Pro-consul_
([Greek: hanthupatos]) of Achaia.]
[Footnote 161: See p. 131.]
[Footnote 162: See p. 170.]
[Footnote 163: His reputation for strength, skill, and daring cost him
his life a few years later, under Nero (Tac, 'Ann.' xvi. 15).]
[Footnote 164: Pigs of lead have been found in Denbighshire stamped
CANGI or DECANGI. Mr. Elton, however, locates the tribe in Somerset.
Coins testify to Antedrigus, the Icenian, being somehow connected with
this tribe.]
[Footnote 165: A Roman "Colony" was a town peopled by citizens of
Rome (old soldiers being preferred) sent out in the first instance to
dominate the subject population amid whom they were settled. Such was
Philippi.]
[Footnote 166: Tacitus, 'Annals,' xii. 38.]
[Footnote 167: The distinction of an actual triumph was reserved for
Emperors alone.]
[Footnote 168: Tacitus, 'Annals,' xii. 39.]
[Footnote 169: See p. 239. Uriconium alone has as yet furnished
inscriptions of the famous Fourteenth Legion, _"Victores Britannici."_
(See p. 160.)]
[Footnote 170: 'Ep. ad Atticum,' vi. 1.]
[Footnote 171: See Dio Cassius, xii. 2.]
[Footnote 172: The Procurator of a Province was the Imperial Finance
Administrator. (See Haverfield, 'Authority and Archaeology,' p. 310.)]
[Footnote 173: An inscription calls the place _Colonia Victricensis_.]
[Footnote 174: Tacitus, 'Ann.' xiv. 32.]
[Footnote 175: Demeter and Kore. M. Martin ('Hist. France,' i. 63)
thinks there is here a confusion between the Greek Kore (Proserpine)
and Koridwen, the White Fairy, the Celtic Goddess of the Moon and also
(as amongst the Greeks) of maidenhood. But this is not proven.]
[Footnote 176: The former is Strabo's variant of the name (which may
possibly be connected with [Greek: _semnos_]), the latter that of
Dionysius Periegetes ('De Orbe,' 57). In Caesar we find a third form
_Namnitae_, which Professor Rhys connects with the modern Nantes.]
[Footnote 177: See p. 127.]
[Footnote 178: As Agricola, his father-in-law, was actually with
Suetonius, Tacitus had exceptional opportunities for knowing the
truth.]
[Footnote 179: Suetonius probably retreated southward when he
left London, and reoccupied its ruins when the Britons, instead of
following him, turned northwards to Verulam.]
[Footnote 180: The Roman _pilum_ was a casting spear with a heavy
steel head, nine inches long.]
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