76 ([return])
[ The date of his arrival is uncertain.]
77 ([return])
[ He was sent to Britain by Vespasian, A.D. 69.]
78 ([return])
[ The Brigantes inhabited Yorkshire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Durham.]
79 ([return])
[ The date of his arrival in Britain is uncertain. This Frontinus is the author of the work on "Stratagems," and, at the time of his appointment to the lieutenancy of Britain, he was curator aquarum at Rome. This, probably, it was that induced him to write his other work on the aqueducts of Rome.]
80 ([return])
[ This seems to relate to his having been curtailed in his military operations by the parsimony of Vespasian, who refused him permission to attack other people than the Silures. See c. 11.]