[Illustration: 60·2ᵈ. CAESARS Camp _on_ Hounslow heath. 18 Apr. 1723. Stukeley Del.] [Illustration: 62·2ᵈ. CAESAR’S Camp at Kingsbury, _the Church built of Roman Bricks from the City of_ VERULAM. _W Stukeley delin 20 Sept 1767_] [Illustration: 63·2ᵈ. Raven_s_bury _a Roman Camp near_ Hexton _Bedfʳ. 10 Iuly 1724_. _Stukeley delin._ _E. Kirkall Sculp._ _Simoni Degg_ Ar. _d.d. W. Stukeley_] It was not suitable to his honour, or his security, to quarter in the city of London; but he pitched his camp, where now is Pancras church: his _prætorium_ is still very plain, overagainst the church, in the foot-path, on the west side of the brook; the _vallum_ and the ditch visible: its breadth from east to west forty paces; its length from north to south sixty paces. This was his _prætorium_, where his own tent was pitched in the centre; the prætorian cohorts around it. There was no great magnificence in Cæsar’s tent, here placed; it was not his manner. L. Aurunculeius Cotta, who was here present, in his commentaries writes, when Cæsar was in Britain, although he had acquired the highest fame by his great actions, yet was he so temperate in his manner of life, such a stranger to pomp, that he had only three servants in his tent. Cotta was killed the next year in Gaul. When I came attentively to consider the situation of it, and the circumjacent ground, I easily discerned the traces of his whole camp: a great many ditches, or divisions of the pastures, retain footsteps of the plan of the camp; agreeable to their usual form, as in the plate engraved: and whenever I take a walk thither, I enjoy a visionary scene of the whole camp of Cæsar, as described in the Plate before us; a scene as just as if beheld, and Cæsar present. His army consisted of about 40,000 men, four legions with their horse. After long debate of authors concerning the quantity of a Roman legion, I infer, from Josephus so very often using the expression of ten thousand, many ten thousands, and the like, that the usual and general number of soldiers in a legion was ten thousand. Authors generally state a legion at 6666 men; but they must mean strictly the soldiery, without officers or horse: so that I conclude a complete legion of foot and horse to be 10,000. Polibius, Vol. 2. book iii. writes, in the war of Hannibal, each legion consisted of 5000, besides the auxiliaries, together with 900 horse; and therefore we may well judge, a legion with its officers should be reckoned 10,000. Romans 5000 Auxiliaries 4000 Horse 900 Officers 100 —————— 10,000 Strabo writes, the Romans generally had their horses from Gaul.