The Count of the Saxon Shore; or The Villa in Vectis.: A Tale of the Departure of the Romans from BritainChurch, Alfred John
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The Count of the Saxon Shore; or The Villa in Vectis.: A Tale of the Departure of the Romans from Britain
Church, Alfred John
Great Britain -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D. -- Fiction; Historical fiction; Romans -- Great Britain -- Fiction
22 Probably the Channel Islands, always a dangerous place for
navigation.
23 Perhaps something like the early Saxon poem which we know under the
name of Beowulf.
24 Possibly the reason why so much buried money belonging to the later
days of the Roman occupation of Britain has been found.
25 Ireland. A similar incident is mentioned by Tacitus in his life of
Agricola. An Irish petty king, driven from his throne by internal
troubles, came to the Roman general and promised, if he were
restored, to bring the island under the dominion of Rome. This is
the first notice of the country that occurs in history.
26 This was exactly what had happened not many years before to St.
Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland.
27 Probably somewhere near Wexford.
28 With us tables are cleared after a meal; with the Romans they seem
to have been actually removed.
29 Theodosius ordered a massacre at Thessalonica on account of some
offence offered to him by the populace of that city.
30 Chichester.
31 Pevensey.
32 Boulogne.
33 Commonly known by his Romanized name of Caractacus.
34 Streets of Rome.
35 This river, of course, must have been the Avon.
36 Winchester.
37 Salisbury.
38 Now known as Downton, a small market town, about five miles south of
Salisbury.
39 A trilith consists of two upright stones with a third placed across.
40 “How say ye then to my soul that she should flee as a bird unto the
hill?”—PSALM xi. 1.
41 Commonly called Jerome.
42 John Chrysostom, at Antioch 386-398, at Constantinople 398-404.
43 Winchester.
44 Calleva Attrebatium, now known as Silchester, one of the most
perfect specimens of a Roman camp to be seen in this country.
45 Princeps Civitatis.
46 The wall of Antoninus, built to defend Northern Britain from the
Caledonians, and held by Roman forces till far on in the fourth
century.
47 Daniel iii. 19.
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