[6] In B.C. 34, 27 and 25 (Dion Cassius, xlix., 38; liii., 22 and 25).
[7] The popular form of this prince’s name, Caractacus, is not justified by the MSS., but one would not think it necessary to restore the true form by the omission of one letter, were it not that the correct spelling brings us nearer to the Welsh equivalent, Caradoc.
[8] That these four legions took part in the Plautian conquest of Britain is undoubted. It may perhaps, however, be questioned whether all sailed with Aulus Plautius at the very outset of the expedition. The fact that the army was divided for the purpose of the crossing into three portions looks rather as if it consisted of three legions: and the fourth might form the nucleus of the reinforcements which came with the Emperor Claudius.
[9] Agricola, xiv.
[10] The name of this tribe is doubtful.
[11] For the reasons in favour of the date 60 instead of 61 (given by Tacitus), see Henderson, Life and Principate of Emperor Nero, p. 477.
[12] Her name seems to have been really Boudicca, meaning the Victorious. The form Boadicea rests on no authority and conveys no meaning, but it is now too late to change it.
[13] Several names of British gods begin like Andraste. A little farther on Dion speaks of the sacred grove of Andate or Victory; and we find dedications to Ancasta, Anociticus, and Antenociticus.
[14] From a misreading of this name is derived the modern Grampian.
[15] These sentences are quoted from Prof. Pelham’s paper on “The Roman Frontier System” (Transactions of Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Society, xiv., 170–84), in which the reader will find an admirable statement of the object of the Roman frontier defences and the manner of their construction.