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VI.—Further Observations on the Expedition of the Emperor Augustus into Britain
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
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The evidence of an important fact which. I have lately made known to the Society of Antiquaries, bridging over (as it does) a whole century of our unwritten history, consists principally in the direct and positive assertion of it by the ancient commentator and critic, Servius; and the only objection that I have heard, publicly or privately, against the veracity of his statement, and the consequent view that I have taken of those passages in the Augustan Poets which relate to Britain, amounts to this, that we are required thereby to impugn or reject the opinions of two respectable historians more ancient than the commentator, namely, Cornelius Tacitus and Suetonius Tranquillus. I have thought proper therefore to vindicate in this second paper the authority of Servius, against the negative opinions of those other Roman writers, and their numerous followers.
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page 81 note a Vita Agricolæ, c. 9.
page 82 note a See the explanation of bipennis, by Servius, p. 677.
page 82 note b Cæsar de Bell. Gall. lib. v. c. 13.
page 82 note c See the authorities referred to in Sir Thomas Hardy's Chronological Abstract, prefixed to the Monumenta, p. 135.
page 83 note a Cæsar de Bell. Gall. lib. v. c. 21.
page 83 note b Saxii Onom. Lit. i. 242–3 ; Monumenta Hist. Brit. pp. 50, vii.
page 84 note a Pomp. Mela, iii. 6.
page 84 note b Edit. 1620, p. 126.
page 85 note a Eusebius, in his Chronicle, as translated by Hieronymus, places Nepos in the first year of the 185th Olympiad, in the 4th year of Octavianus's government, before he was Emperor.
page 85 note b Calvisii Chronologia, 1650, fol. p. 79.
page 86 note a Strabo, ii. c. 3, ed. Casauboni, 1587, fol. pp. 67, 68; ed. 1707, fol. i. 155–8.
page 86 note b Suetonius in Claudio, c. 17.
page 86 note c Eutropius, vii. 13.
page 87 note a Nennii Historia, inter Monumenta Hist. Brit. p. 59.
page 87 note b Henrici Huntend. Historia, Ibid. p. 697.
page 87 note c Cæsar de Bell. Gall. lib. v. c. 22.
page 87 note d Beda, inter Mon. Hist. Brit pp. 85, 111.
page 88 note a Petrie makes him flourish in “a.c. 30.” Born about a.c. 54, says Sir Thomas Hardy (Monumenta, pp. 50, iii.) Saxius dates Strabo's work in a.d. 19, = 5 Tiberii, relying on a passage in his fourth book.
page 88 note b Translation somewhat corrected from that printed with portions of the Greek text of Strabo, in the Monumenta, p. vii. Cf. Strabonis Geogr. lib. iv. c. 5, ed. 1587, p. 138 ; ed. 1707, i. 306–7.
page 89 note a i.e. the land tax.
page 89 note b Translation as before, Monumenta, p. 5. Cf. Strabonis Geogr. lib. iv. c. 5, ed. 1587, p. 79; ed. 1707, i. 176. [Export and import duties imply a custom house (portus), which itself implies a territory.]
page 89 note c Ibid. Mon. pp. vi. vii. Strabo, lib. iv. c. 5.
page 89 note d Plin. Hist. nat. xv. 25, 30.
page 89 note e Monumenta, Chronological Abstract, p. 131.
page 89 note f Ibid. Excerpta, p. ix.
page 91 note a Virg. Æneid, 1. 287.
page 92 note a “Et vacet annales nostrorum audire laborum.” (Virg. Æneid, 1. 373.)