The passage of the Scots from Ireland.
I need add no more, than, if Camden and Barton, Gale and Horsley, had had Richard of Cirencester’s work, there had been nothing left for others to do in this argument.
A very lively proof of the Romans conquering Scotland by Agricola in Martial’s epigram,
Nuda Caledonio dum pectora præbuit Urso
Non ficta pendens in cruce Laureolus.
Domitian was extravagantly fond of exhibitions in the amphitheatre: Martial’s I. Lib. intirely taken up therewith; nothing more engaging the emperor’s vanity, than for Agricola to send him some bears from Scotland, for his shows.
Cap. II. An elenchus of the Roman emperors and legates commanding in Britain. The end is wanting.
II.
ON THE
MAP of BRITTANIA ROMANA
OF
RICHARD of CIRENCESTER.
A. D. 1338.
Read at the Antiquarian Society, April 8, 1756.