FOUND IN BRITAIN. 307 



A.D. 65. Petronius Turpilianus succeeded by Trebellius Maximus. 

 A.D. 71- Vettius Bolanus succeeded by Petilius Cerialis. 

 A.D. 75. Petilius Cerialis succeeded by Julius Frontinus. 

 *A.D. 85. End of the government of Agricola. 



Orelli's views, as expressed in his notes on the Agricola, and adopted 

 by several subsequent editors, difPer, in some respects, from those 

 stated by Horsley. He places Aulus Plautius in the years A.U.C. 

 796-800 = A.D. 43-47 ; Ostorius, A.U.C. 800-803 = A.D. 47-50 ; 

 Didius Gallus, from the death of Ostorius to about A.U.C. 810 = 

 A.D. 57; Suetonius Paulinus, A.U.C. 811-114 = A.D. 58-61; 

 Petronius Turpilianus and Trebellius Maximus, A.U.C. 814-822 =: 

 A.D. 61-69 ; Vettius Bolanus, Petilius Cerealis, and Julius Frontinus, 

 A.U.C. 822-831 = A.D. 69-78. 



The chief points of difference are as to the dates of the following : 



(a) The end of the government of Plautius, and the beginning of 

 that of Ostorius Scapula. 



{b) The death of Ostorius Scapula, and the succession of Didius 

 Gallus. 



(c) The end of the government of Suetonius Paulinus, and the 

 beginning of that of Petronius Turpilianus. 



Horsley was of opinion that Plautius remained as Legate in Britain 

 from A.D. 43 to A.D. 50, in which year he was succeeded by Osto- 

 rius ; and this opinion he evidently based on the belief that that year 

 — scil. 50 — was the first of the administration of Ostorius. 



Let us examine the grounds of that belief. In the 12th Book of 

 the Annals, c. 25, Tacitus begins the account of the events in the 

 consulship of Antistius and Suillius = A.D. 50. In c. 31 he takes 

 up the affairs of Britain, and remarks : "At in Britannia P. Osto- 

 rium pro prsetore turbidce res excipere, effusis in agrum sociorum 

 hostibus eo violentius quod novum ducem exercitu ignoto et coepta 

 hieme iturum obviam non rebantur." He then proceeds with the nar- 

 rative of the actions of Ostorius, including the spectacle of Caractacus 

 at Rome before Claudius and Agrippina, and extends his notice of 

 British affairs beyond the death of Ostorius to the administration of 

 his successor, Didius Gallus, concluding his narrative, in c. 40, with 

 the words : — Hcbc quamquam a duobus [Ostorio Bidioque] proprce- 



* I concur in the view that it is more probable that Agricola reaiained in the island until 

 86, than that he left in 84. 



