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and retreated inland as soon as the sails of the ships which 

 followed with Constantius came in sight. His retreat was 

 cut off, and his army surprised, after it had advanced some 

 distance into the interior, by the force under Asclepiodotus. 

 The British troops were totally routed, and Allectus and 

 many of his followers were slain, whose bodies, distinguished 

 by their long fair hair and gay barbaric apparel, were found 

 dispersed over hill and plain in various directions, while 

 scarcely one Roman soldier perished. The remnant of the 

 British army made its way to London, intending first to 

 pillage, and then to abandon that city; but, meeting there 

 with those troops of Constantius who had sailed up the 

 Thames, it was put to the sword. And thus Britain was 

 recovered to the Roman empire. 



Such (supplying only from other sources some of the 

 introductory facts, with the names of Asclepiodotus and of 

 Carausius, whom the orator calls the " arch-pirate," and 

 Allectus, whom he styles a "satellite" of Carausius and the 

 " standard-bearer " of the rebel party) is the substance of 

 what we learn from Eumenius. The passages most material 

 to the question of the identity of the battle-field with Woolmer 

 Forest are subjoined, in the original Latin. 



" Ad tempus ipsum tantas se dorso maris nebulas miscuerunt, 

 " ut inimica classis, apud Vectam insulam in speculis atque 

 " insidiis collocata, ignorantibus omnino hostibus praBteriretur. 

 "... Jam vero idem ille vestro auspicio invictus exercitus, 

 " statim atque Britannise litus invaserat, universis navibus 

 " suis injecit ignes. . . . Ipse autem Signifer nefarise fac- 

 " tionis, cur ab eo litore, quod tenebat, abscessit, cur classem 

 " portumque deseruit, nisi quod te, Caesar invicte, cujus im- 

 " minentia vela conspexerat, timuit jam jamque venturum ? 

 " . . . Te tamen ille fugiens, incidit in tuorum manus ; a te 

 " victus, a tuis exercitibus oppressus est. Denique adeo tre- 

 "pidus, et te post terga respiciens, et in modum amentis 

 " attoniti properavit in mortem, ut nee explicaret aciem, nee 

 " omnes copias quas trahebat instruxerit, sed cum veteribus 

 " illis conjurationis auctoribus, et mercenariis cuneis bar- 

 "barorum, tanti apparatus oblitus, irruerit. Adeo, Csesar, 



