[329] Mandubratius, Mr Camden observes, is by Eutropius, Bede, and the more modern writers called Androgeus, which in the British language signifies vir malus, a bad man; a name of infamy fixed on him for having been the first who betrayed his country.—Camden's "Britannia," ii. 327, edit. 1772; Baxter's "Glossary" in voce.
[330] i.e., Spoiled, rendered unserviceable. See Cotgrave in voce Desbaucher.—Steevens.
[331] Hercules and Alexander.—Steevens.
[332] Hannibal.—Steevens.
[333] Cacus stole the oxen of Hercules, and, that which way they went might not be discovered, drew them backwards into his den.—Steevens.
[334] See Cæsar's "Commentaries," bk. v. s. 20, 21. The Trinobantes were those who inhabited Middlesex and Essex. The Cenimagnians, says Camden, were the same with the Iceni, whose province contained Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire. Segontiaks, he thinks, were originally the Belgæ, and places them in the hundred of Holshot, in Hampshire; the Ancalites he calls those who inhabit the hundred of Henley, in Oxfordshire; the Bybrocks, that of Bray, in Berkshire; and the Cassians the people of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Herefordshire, where the name is still preserved in the hundred of Casbow.
"Versis lugeret Græcia fatis."
—Steevens.
[336] Terms of heraldry, signifying green and red.