202 On the Roman Conquest of Southern Britain. 
only sixteen days. The question of his presence at the capture of 
Camalodunum is not of much importance. Dio asserts it, Suetonius 
seems to deny it. “ Sine ullo praelio aut sanguine intra paucissimos 
dies parte insulae in deditionem recepta sexto quam profectus erat 
mense Romam rediit” (de Claudio,e.17). This would agree better 
with the presence of Claudius in the quiet district of the Belge, 
Atrebates, and Regni, than amongst the Trinobantes, but both may 
be true. 
‘The ‘first permanent results of the eonquest were, it would seem, 
the establishment of the colony of veterans at Glevum (Gloucester) 
on the west, which we may suppose to have been the first home of 
the IInd Legion, afterwards so long stationed at Caerleon, and of 
the colony of Camalodunum, with its temple of the divine Claudius, 
which was probably the first home of the KIVth Legion—a force 
which we may remark was withdrawn in the year 70, and has 
therefore left few traces in the island. Hiibner suggests that the 
first quarters of the IXth Hispana were at Calleva (p. 24), and 
those of the IVth at Cirencester or Bath (p. 25), but these con- 
jectures, though plausible, are not established. 
For us, however, the conclusion is clear that our county was almost — 
outside the sphere of warlike operations, while it had nothing in 
the way either of mineral wealth or of other natural attractions, 
like those possessed by Bath, to draw to it any confluence of Roman 
settlers. With the exception, therefore, of the roads necessary to 
connect the main stations together and the villas adjacent to them, 
the Romans left little mark among us. Had the Belge been a 
strong and hostile race and Sorbiodunum required the presence of a 
legion, either New Sarum would have been founded much sooner, 
or Wilton or Stratford-sub-Castle would have grown up into greater 
prominence. Probably, the keen instinct for sites possessed by the 
Roman generals would have marked out the meeting-place of so 
many valleys and streams as those we have at Salisbury as the 
fitting site for a colony of veterans long before the end of the first 
century, while the old city would have been crowned with buildings 
of solid stone, including, perhaps, a beautiful acqueduct spanning 
the Avon valley. But, as it was, the quiet, separative, secretive 
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