[3516] Tum nostri cohortati inter se, ne tantum dedecus admitteretur, universi ex navi desiluerunt. Hos item ex proximis navibus cum conspexissent, subsecuti hostibus adpropinquaverunt.
[3517] See B. G., v, 17, § 5.
[3518] B. G., v, 19-21.
[3519] See Archaeol. Journal, xxii, 1865, pp. 299-301.
[3520] Archeaologia, i, 1770, p. 189.
[3521] B. G., v, 21, § 1. The habitat of the Cassi is unknown; and it is very doubtful whether Cassiobury preserves their name. Sir John Evans (Archaeologia, liii, 1892, p. 247) remarks that ‘at the time of the invasion of Julius Caesar this [Hertfordshire] ... appears to have been occupied by the Cassi, who not improbably were the same tribe as ... the Catyeuchlani’, or Catuvellauni. With all due deference to so high an authority. I take leave to say, first, that is no evidence that the Cassi occupied Hertfordshire; secondly, that there is no evidence for identifying them with the Catuvellauni; and lastly, that the Cassi, who surrendered before the capture of Cassivellaunus’s stronghold, cannot have been identical with the people who were under the immediate control of Cassivellaunus.
[3522] Gall. Krieg, 1880, p. 157, n. 2.
[3523] Archaeologia, xl, 1866. pp. 65-6.
[3524] There is no evidence that Cassivellaunus had conquered the Trinovantes, though he had killed their king, the father of Mandubracius.
[3525] See pp. 703-5, infra.