Particularly in regard to its influence on the County of Wilts. 201 
the Belgz, and as our own county contains no military stations of 
much importance, we may presume that Plautius concluded a peace 
at once with these three tribes, the Atrebates, the Belg, and the 
Regni, Cogidumnus, or Cogidubnus, King of the Regni, became 
a faithful ally of the Romans, as is witnessed by the inscription of 
the Temple of Neptune and Minerva, for which he gave authority, 
pro salute domus divine, as well as by Tacitus (Agricola 14). The 
Cantii in Kent also appear to have been friendly. 
But there were other well-known warlike tribes close at hand 
both to the east and the west of the island, namely, the Trinobantes 
in Essex, whose king, Cunobelinus, now dead, had been succeeded 
by two warlike sons, Cataracus and Togodumnus; and the Catu- 
vellaunians and their subjects, the Dobuni in Gloucestershire. After 
the defeat of Cataracus (or Caractacus) and Togodumnus, for the 
locality of which there are no data, the only battle of importance 
mentioned by Dio is one against the Boduni or Dobuni, the people 
of Gloucestershire, which took place on a large river, probably the 
Severn, in which Osidius Geta, Vespasian, and Flavius Sabinus all 
took prominent part. The centre of operations then shifted to the 
Thames, where Togodumnus appears to have been killed. It is 
probable that different portions of the fleet at once occupied the two 
great inlets of the Thames on the east, and the Bristol Channel on 
the west, in order to support the army in its conflicts with the two 
hostile tribes of which we have spoken, supported as they were by 
the even more warlike peoples of the Iceni of our modern Suffolk 
and Norfolk and the Silures in South Wales. But the wealthy 
city of Londinium (C.LL., vii., p. 21) on the east and the lead 
mines of the Mendips on the west, were probably also attractions 
from the first. Bars or pigs of lead stamped with the names of 
Claudius and Britannicus, have been found on the Mendips dated as 
early as A.D. 49. 
After these victories Claudius was summoned by his successful 
general, and landed somewhere, it may be conjectured, in Kent. 
But Dio’s account is so vague that he might have equally landed at 
Southampton. He was present, it would seem, at the capture of 
Camalodunum, and returned to Italy after remaining in the country 
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