2o8 A. D. 306 — 337. 



divifion into four provinces is believed to have taken place in the reign 

 of Conftantine; and they were as follows. Britannia ^rima compre- 

 hended the country fouth of the Thamefis {Thames) and the Sabrina 

 {Severn) ; and Rhutupis {Richburgb in Kent) was the capital. Britannia 

 SECUNDA was bounded by the Sabrina and the Deva {Dee) on the eaft, 

 and on the other fides by the Trifli fea, Ifca Silurum {Caerkion) being 

 the capital. Flavia C^sariensis * was bounded on the fouth by the 

 Thamefis ; on the weft by the oabrina, the Deva, and the Infli fea ; 

 on the north by the Seteia {Merfea), the Danus {Don), and the Abus 

 {Huviber) \ and on the eaft by the German fea. The capital is not cer- 

 tainly known, but may be prefumed to have been the antient colony 

 of Camulodunum {Colchejler), or perhaps rather the now more flourifti- 

 ing city of Lundinum {London). Maxima f comprehended all the re- 

 maining part of the conquered country, which, while the Romans were 

 able to preferve the limits fixed by the treaty between the emperor ^ 

 Antoninus Baflianus (or Caracalla) and the Caledonians, feems to have 

 extended as far north as the Cheviot hills and the range of mountains 

 dividing Galloway (in its largeft extent) irom Tiviotdale. Tweeddale, and 

 Clydefdale. Eboracum {York) was the capital of this province, and, at 

 leaft occafionally, of the whole of the Roman dominions in Britain : 

 and all thefe capital cities were Roman colonies. \Sexti Rufi Breviarium. 

 — Ric.Corin. L.\,c.6.'\ 



About this time the Romans, perhaps dropping the ufe of their own 

 money of account c^Wtil fejiertiu?n, and of the Greek or Oriental talent, 

 feem to have reckoned their large fums by pounds of gold ; at leaft we 

 find the falaries of their great officers of ftate, bilhops, &c. fo reckon- 

 ed :j:. ' 



The Roman pound of gold, which may be reckoned equal to forty 

 pounds of our modern fterling money, was exchanged at this time for 

 fourteen pounds eight ounces of filver. 



About 345 — From the circumftance of an embafly being fent by the 

 emperor Conftantius to the king of the Homerites, (formerly called Sa- 

 b^eans) in order to convert him to the Chriftian religion, and probably 

 alfo to engage him to harafs the coaft of Perfia with naval invafions §, 

 we learn that that king now extended his fway over all the fouth coaft 

 of Arabia, which the Greeks called the Great Arabia and the Happy 



* Apparently fo called from tlic prxiiomcn of tions, being lefs opulent, counted pounds oijiher 



Flavlus, iiffumcd by Conltantii/t, aiui after him by iiillcad of pounds of gold, 

 inany of the 'uccceding emperors. J Tliat tlie Roman emperors kept up alliances 



f Perhaps fo called, as being crroneoufly fnp- with the Homerites and the Axiimites, a people 



pofed the largeft of the whole (whereas it was not on the well coall of t!;c Red lea, in the year 356, 



near fo extenlive as Flavia) ; or as pretending that and alfo in the reigns of Jullin and Judiuian, ap- 



ihe unconciuercd country was a part of it. pears from an older cuueeining the e.xpenles of 



\ Probablj the numeration of money by pounds, thole who were fcr.t to them, from Noi.nofus, am- 



wliicli became general among all the nations of £u- ballador to Axuma, \_ap. Photii Bibliothcc. cod. iii} 



rope, was copied from them; but the other na- and from Procopius, IPcrJic, L. i, c, 19, 20.] 



