198 A. D. 170. 



the nature of it is unknown. The following feem to have been the 



moft conliderable of them. 



Nagnata, diftinguifhed by Pto- 7 ^^ ^^^ ^,^^ ^^^^^ 



lemy as a ramous towii, 3 



Manapia, oppofite to, and pro-^ 



bably a colony from, Menapia 



in Britain. 

 Eblana, Dublin. 



and feven inland towns, noted by Ptolemy, and by Richard, who has 

 alfo feveral others unknown to Ptolemy. 



Some commotions broke out in Britain ; and Calphurnius Agricola 

 was fent to fupprefs them : but of his fuccefs the Roman writers are 

 entirely filent *. {Capitoliiii M. Ant. Philos.'] 



175 — The Romans being again threatened with war by the Britons, 

 or, to fpeak more corredly, the Caledonians, the emperor fent over a 

 large body of lazygian horfemen to reinforce his legions. 



183 — The war with the Britons of Caledonia was the moft formidable 

 of all thofe in which the Romans were now eiigaged. The Caledonians, 

 not fatisfied with the recovery of that part of their own country, which 

 had for fome years been a Roman province under the name of Vefpa- 

 fiana, broke down the wall ereded by LoUius Urbicus, ravaged the 

 country, flew the Roman general, and cut his army in pieces. Mar- 

 cellus, the next Roman commander, repulfed them with fome lofs : but 

 the Romans never recovered their loft province of Vefpafiana. This, 

 if I miftake not, is the very firft province of their empire, from which 



the Romans were driven out by the natives f . \_Dio7u Cajf. L. Ixxii 



Lamp rid. in Com mod.'] 



193 — It is perhaps rather beneath the dignity of commercial hiftory 

 to relate, that the ruffians of the praetorian guard, whole duty it was 

 to defend the perfon of the emperor, after murdering Pertinax, becaufe 

 he was too virtuous to tolerate their abufes, had the infolence to pro- 

 claim an auftion of the imperial title to the higheft bidder. Didius 

 Julian became the purchafer at the price of above two hundj-ed pounds 

 fterling to each man, the total fum being between three and four mil- 

 lions llerling ; probably the largeft purchafe ever made by an indivi- 

 dual. In return for fuch an enormous fum of money he enjoyed the 



* Cicero obfcrvif, that it was a common prac- man tluonulopy to tlie years of the world he has 



t'tcc with the Roman writer; to pafs over their Je- nejjlefted the names of the coiiluls, and as in 



feats in filence. £Oiut. pro If^e Manil.'] events of known date lie fomctimes differs a few 



■f Richard of Circnctfter \_p. 32] dates the ex- years from the truth, I wonld not be pofitivc, that 



piilfion of the Romans from Vefpafiana in the year tlie txpulfion from tliat part of tlic country took 



of the world 4170 or A. D. 170 ; and the fliort pl.icc fo early. At any rate we arc certain, that 



hints V.'- have of two wars in IJritain during the it was now (183) entirely delivered fram the Ro- 



rcipfn of AntoninuG the Philofophcr favour his man yoke, 

 rhroiso'ogy. ijowcvrr, a: in adapting the Ro- 



