Cunobeline, very young, was carried to Rome by his uncle Mandubrace, four years after Cæsar’s expedition here, and his restitution to the kingdom of the _Trinobantes_. Cunobeline became well acquainted, and even intimate with Augustus, in the dawning of his power; being about the same age. Augustus entertained a great kindness for him; and he bore a share in his warfare, being præfect of a Roman legion, the XX. VV. called _Cretica_, as Richard of Cirencester informs us; which is the reason that he so often struck the figure of a boar on his British coins, that being the ensign and cognisance of the legion. After he returned, and was king of Britain, he kept up a friendship and correspondence with Augustus, during his whole, and that a very long life. He struck many coins in honour of Augustus, and the plainest imitations of the coins of Augustus. He sent him magnificent presents, paid a tribute to him, built the city Cæsaromagus in compliment to him. He celebrated the Actiac games like those done by Agrippa at Rome, by Herod at Cæsarea, and many other states of the Roman empire. By these means he staved off, for his life, an actual subjection of Britain to the Romans. I cannot agree with my late learned friend Mr. Baxter in his derivation of _Trinobantum_, that it is of Belgic original. The word _Tri_ or _Tre_ of the old Cornish, prefixed, sufficiently confutes the notion: here is none of the Belgic pronunciation, as in the west of England. Cæsar’s assertion of the supereminent power of the _Trinobantes_, shows they were an aboriginal people: they had indeed been under some sort of subjection to the _Cassii_, or _Cattichleuni_; but that may have been recent, when Casvelhan invaded them, and slew their king, his brother Immanuence, father to our Mandubrace, as Cæsar tells us. The very name of their neighbours, _Cattichleuni_, confirms our opinion; signifying the clan of the _Cassii_; a most ancient word of the Britons, equivalent to the Latin _civitas_, used by Cæsar; still in use in Scotland. Baxter owns the _Cassii_ to be of Frisian, or British origin.