They make peace; Didius dies at Trynovant. Veranius 
succeeds; visits the fortresses; comes "to Camelidone to 
the temple of Claudius." Claudius dies ; Nero's lieutenant 
Paulinus Suetonius invades Mona, and destroys the Druids. 
Taking advantage of his absence, the British, as in Ostorius' 
time, revolt, burn the colony of Camulodunum, destroy the 
temple of Claudius, cut to pieces the infantry of the ninth 
legion, which was coming to succour the detachment which 
had been sent to protect the colony ; Petilius Cerealis, with 
the horse, retreats with difficulty, and manages to defend 
himself within fortifications. Now it is just possible that it 
was he who flung up these earthworks ; if he had been 
coining from Legiolium to succour Don-Castra, and had to 
retreat, it is just possible it might have been to this morass 
he fled for safety. I hazard this conjecture as a second 
thought upon the subject. Boadicaaa, or Bonduca, as she is 
called in best MSS., is the head of this confederacy against 
the Romans, who were "killed, hanged, burned, crucified." 
Suetonius Paulinus marches back in haste, defeats the confed- 
eracy, and saves the Roman power from complete destruction. 
Now, lastly, I have a most important and interesting 
subject to bring before you. In the accounts of that 
uprising of the Britons against the Romans* there has been 
a persistent effort to oust the Brigantes from their share in 
the conflict, and to remove the colony of Camulodunum, 
spite of the clear and positive statements of Seneca,*)* and 
* "Commotis ad rebellationem Trinobantibus, et qui alii (Q. Brigantes) non- 
dum servitio facti resumere libertatem occultis conjurationibus pepigerant, acer- 
limo in veteranos odio. Quippe in Coloniani Camulodunum recens deducti pclle- 
bant domibus, extorbabant agris, ' captivos servos' apellando. . . . Ad L.tjc 
templum D. Claudio constitum, quod arx seternie dominations aspiciebatur. " — 
Tacit lis, xiv., c. 29. 
f Xipbiline, hdi, p. 701, states that this very revolt was partly owing to 
Seneca's requiring repayment of large sums advanced at usurious interest, and 
the confiscations exacted from the Britons. 
