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Siluri surprise the praefectus castrorum, who appears here in his 

 proper capacity of governor (Veget. 2. 10), and the Cohorts of 

 the Legion who had been left behind. Only internal discord 

 (Ann. 12. 40; Hist. 3. 45) re-establishes after P. Ostorius' 

 death, under his successor, A. Diduis, the Roman Supremacy. 

 Venta Silurum, and Isca Silurum were among the forts (1) 

 erected against the Siluri ; it is clear that the head quarters of 

 the Legion were pushed to Isca much later, and after the 

 complete subjection of South Wales. From this and another 

 reason, I think it probable that Glevum constituted the original 

 standing quarters of the Second, as Camulodunum that of the 

 Fourteenth Legion. 



The other reason is this : exactly in the same systematic and 

 cautious manner in which the occupation of the Island had 

 been carried out up till then, it seems to have been continued 

 under the Legates of Nero and Vespasian, as far as we are able 

 to judge from the only extant account in Agricola, and which 

 is rather summary and highly coloured. The campaign of 

 Suetonius, against the Isle of Mona (Angelsey), (Agric. 15) is 

 only conceivable with a basis for his operations such as was 

 afforded by the Colony of Deva (Chester), on the northern 

 frontier of the territory of the Siluri and Ordoviki, and which 

 was only completely conquered by Julius Frontiuus (Agric 17). 

 At Deva were always the standing quarters of the Twentieth 

 Legion (2). 



On the western side Petilius Cerialis, Vespasian's Legate, had 

 begun the further advance against the Brigantes ; the Colony 

 of Lindum (Lincoln) is the geographical expression of these 

 operations ; probably the original standing quarters of the II 

 adjutrix (3) sent to Britain by Vespasian merely for the purpose of 

 this expedition. Lindum and Deva lie, again, corresponding with 

 Camulodunum and Glevum, almost exactly in the same latitude, 

 the one in the east between the estuaries of the Metaris and Abus, 



(1) Compare also Agric. 14, Diduis Gallus parta a piioribus continuit paucis 

 admodum castellis in ulteriora promotis. 



(2) C.I.L., VII, p. 47. (8) C.I.L., VII, p. 51. 



