Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

by T. Rice Holmes

[1411] See p. 223, supra.

[1412] See my Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul, 1899, p. 480.

[1413] Cf. Caesar, B. C., i, 44, § 4.

[1414] Quae prima signa conspexit, ad haec constitit. B. G., ii, 21, § 6.

[1415] Lord Wolseley, The Soldiers’ Pocket-Book, 5th ed., pp. 286, 412-7.

[1416] Phars., ii, 572.

[1417] See the passages quoted on pp. 329, 348, 350, supra, and also Diodorus Siculus, v, 21, § 2; Strabo, iv, 5, § 3; Plutarch, Caesar, 23; Appian, De rebus Gall., i, 5, B. C., ii, 17; Dion Cassius, lxii, 4, § 1; Tacitus, Agricola, 13; and Suetonius, Divus Iulius, 25.

[1418] ... divus Iulius cum exercitu Britanniam ingressus, quamquam prospera pugna terruerit incolas ac litore potitus sit, potest videri ostendisse posteris, non tradidisse (Agricola, 13).

[1419] Th. Mommsen, Hist. of Rome, v, 1894, p. 66 (Röm. Gesch., iii, 1889, p. 272). Mommsen is, I think, nearer the truth when he says (The Provinces of the Roman Empire, i, 1886, p. 171 [Röm. Gesch., v, 155]) that ‘the Britons ... certainly did not long pay—perhaps never paid at all—the tribute,’ &c.

[1420] Bibl. Hist., v, 21, § 2.