Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

by T. Rice Holmes

[3641] Napoleon (Hist. de Jules César, ii, 195, n. 4) arbitrarily identifies Blandeno with Lodi.

[3642] Q. fr., ii, 13, § 1.

[3643] Hist. de Jules César, ii, 199.

[3644] Jahrbücher für classische Philologie, 13 Supplementband, 1884, pp. 615, 620.

[3645] See O. E. Schmidt, Der Briefwechsel des M. Tullius Cicero, pp. 201-5, 378-9. The distance from Placentia to Rome via Luca was 378 miles, via Ariminum 403. See Itin. Ant., ed. Wesseling, pp. 124-7, 284, 287-8.

[3646] Jahrbücher für classische Philologie, 13 Supplementband, 1884, pp. 615-20; Napoleon III, Hist. de Jules César, ii, 199.

[3647] See O. E. Schmidt, Der Briefwechsel des M. Tullius Cicero, pp. 378-80. Caesar did occasionally, as Schmidt admits, travel at the rate of 100 Roman miles a day (Plutarch, Caesar, 17; Suetonius, Divus Iulius, 57. Cf. Caesar, B. C., i, 3, § 6). In 1852, Lord Dalhousie rode and drove from Benares to Barrackpore, a distance of 400 miles, in 80 hours, including stoppages; and in the same year General Godwin travelled from Meerut to Calcutta—over 950 miles—in 11 days (Sir W. Lee-Warner’s Life of the Marquis of Dalhousie, i, 1904, pp. 403, 422).

[3648] See p. 730, infra.

[3649] Att., iv, 15, § 10.

[3650] Q. fr., ii, 15, § 4.