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And where was that '] Some respectable names of old antiqitariea 

 may be quoted in support of the theory that these wars of Osturius 

 were on a small scale, and were confined to the south-west, and that 

 Cadbury, or some such place, was the site of Camulodunum. On 

 the other hand the great majority of historians believe the wars to 

 have extended all over the island, and that the colony was placed 

 in the east. Camulodunums have been set iip at Doncaster, at 

 Saffron Walden, and at Castle Camps in Cambridgeshire, besides at 

 Maldon the site ascribed to the city by Camden, and the now 

 almost universally accepted Colchester. Of this diversity among 

 his opponents Mr. Skinner made much fun, and compared the 

 clippings and the stretchings to which the Itineraries were 

 subjected by our predecessors to the efforts of a short fat parish 

 clerk to fit to his back the cast-off clothes of his tall thin rector. 

 The first notice of the city is the capture by Aulus Plautius, in the 

 reign of Claudius, of Ka/xovXoSowov to tov Kwo/SekXivov Bao-iXeiov, 

 the regal seat of a man, or, as Mr. Skinner, without sufficient 

 evidence and although Cunobelin's predecessors and successors of 

 various names are recorded, saj'S of a dynastij, named Cunobelin, 

 which he translates 5eZ(7tc Hre^f, when the king retreated into South 

 Wales, and the Romans fortified the Severn. Coins of Cunobelins, 

 certainly with very varied portraits, have been found with the 

 letters c.a.m., and in an inscription the god Camulus is named in 

 connection with Cunobelin. This strengthens Dion's statement of 

 Camulodunum having been the seat of Cunobelin, and if Mr. 

 Skinner's translation Belgic king is admitted, we must place 

 Camulodunum in Belgic territory, which we know pretty well to 

 have been in the south-%vest. In A.U.C. 814 (A.D. 61), Suetonius 

 is in command,* and is resolved to subdue Anglesey, but while 

 there he hears of a revolt of Iceni, to whom the Trinobantes 

 joined. The insurgents' cause must have appealed strongly to Mr. 

 Skinner's feelings. It seems that the people around Camulodunum 

 were irritated by the diversion of their religious offerings from their 

 own clergy to the priests who ministered in the new temple erected 

 to Claudius, made a secret cause with Boadicea a chieftainess of 

 the Iceni, and suddenly attacked the colony. And where was this 

 • Annals, book xiv., c. 32. 



