ANTIQUITIES OF SELBOKNE. 391 



" hoc etiam reipublicse tribuit vestra felicitas, ut nemo fere 

 " Romanus occiderit, Imperio vincente Romano. Omnes enim 

 " illos, ut audio, campos atque colles non nisi fceterrimorum 

 " hostium corpora fusa texerunt. Ilia barbara, aut imitatione 

 " barbarian olim cultu vestis et prolixo crine rutilantia, tunc 

 " vero pulvere et cruore foedata, et in diversos situs tracta, 

 " sicuti dolorem vulnerum fuerant secuta, jacuerunt. Atque 

 " inter hos ipse Vexillarius latrocinii, cultu illo (juem vivus 

 " violaverat sponte deposito, et vix unius velaminis repertus 

 " indicio. Adeo verum, ubi dixerat, morte vicina, ut inter- 

 " fectum se nollet agnosci. 



" Enimvero, Caesar invicte, tanto Deorurn Immortalium tibi 

 " est addicta consensu, omnium quidem quos adortus fueris 

 " hostium, sed praecipue internecio Francorum, ut illi quoque 

 " milites vestri, qui, per errorem nebulosi (ut paulo ante dixi) 

 " maris abjuncti, ad oppidum Londiniense pervenerant, quid- 

 " quid ex mercenaria ilia multitudine barbarorum proelio 

 u superfuerunt, cum direpta civitate fugam capessere cogi- 

 " tarent, passim tota urbe confecerint, et non solum pro- 

 " vincialibus vestris in ca^de hostium dederint salutem, sed 

 " etiam in spectaculo voluptatem." 



The inferences to be drawn from this narrative appear to 

 me to correspond with those which I derive from the evidence 

 of the buried weapons and coins, and the tumuli upon the 

 ridges surrounding the basin of Woolmer Forest. If, as is 

 manifestly probable, Asclepiodotus landed between Ports- 

 mouth and Chichester, and if Portsmouth was the harbour 

 near which Allectus took up the position which he so hastily 

 abandoned, he would naturally fall back upon Clausentum 

 (Southampton) and Venta (Winchester) by the ordinary 

 Roman "iter;" and, after collecting whatever treasure he 

 found in those places, the more southerly road, corresponding 

 with that which now goes by way of Alresford* and Alton f 



* A writer on the antiquities of the neighbourhood of Bicester, Oxon., 

 in Kennett's ' Parochial Antiquities,' supposes (somewhat fancifully ) that 

 the first syllable of the name of Alresford and of some other places was 

 derived from Allectus. 



f Farnham was a military station ; whether identical with " Vindomis " 



