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vlderi oftendijfefoftem^ non tradiJife ^, are his very words of him : 
And thac whatever he pretended at Rome^ he got little here but 
dry blovi^s , and the honor of having led an Army hither, 
T&r l^ccTQVAva^ er Sh%a^^ fays Viou C afjfiU6 0^ his fitft Expedition ^. 
And Tacitm rather more than lefs of his [econd-y who brings iii 
Caratiacws encouraging his Britijh Army to recover their Liberty ; 
and in order thereunto, calling upon the names of their An- 
ceflors^ Qui Di^atorem defarem pepulijfent^ that had driven the Di- 
lator Cdcfar out of the Land\ 
I 16. Add further hereunto what 5'/r<7Z'0 delivers concerning his 
Expeditions into Britan^ OuSiv fjya. 2l^'s>fct^oi\x^^ , g^^j^ og^eAcSzw? ^ 
TToXu TVS vTi<ry, that he did nothing ^^Z, nor went far up into the 
I/land^, And that 2l/a7^^ further confeffes hinrt beaten hence t 
for fpeaking concerning the arguments the Br itansui^ed amongft 
themfelves to perfwade the Revolt under Voadicd, he fays they 
brought this as a main one, that could they fliew but the cou- 
rage of their Ancejiors^ Receffuros (/. e. Romanes') ut'DiiJU6 JuUm 
recefjiffet^ : intimating, that his fudden departure hence was little 
better than a flight. Not to mention what Quintilian fays of one 
M, Aper^ that he met with an ancient ^ri/^a;/, that avowed to hmi, 
that he was in the Britijh Camp when they beat C<^far from the 
fliore ; and that Lucan fays of him exprefly, 
Terr it a qudefitis ojiendit terga Britannk 
1 7. After whofe departure, the Britans^ fays tacitm^ enjoyed 
along Peace, lying forgotten by the all the days of Au- 
guftm^ Tiberius^ and Caligula °; fo unlikely were the Romans to 
help Caffivellaun or Cunobelin to this Gold or EleSirum : Nor indeed 
is it probable they would do it after, in the time of Claudius^ when 
they had footing here ; not only for that mony and riches w the in- 
centives to rebellion^ and the very iinews of wdr^ but becaufe had 
thty thought it fit either then or before, we fliould certainly have 
heard on't in fome of their writings, 
18. Of Roman Antiquities yet remaining in this County^ (to 
wave the ftories of Molmutius and Beline) the moft confiderable 
of any, are zhe'ir pub lick vpays^ whereof though there ate feveral, 
8 Tacim in vita Julii AgricoU, cap.1%. Dto7!ii CaJJii^ Rom. Hifl, lib. 39- ' Jaciti Annalium^ lib. T 2 . 
f<?/>. 34.. ^ Strahon.Geograph.lih, J^. ' Tacitus in vita ylgricoU^cap *" Fab- Oui'dtliliaJii deOra- 
toribus Dialog, cap. 17. " e^w. luucani de Bella Civiliy lib. 2. x-. 572. ° Tacitm in vita AgncoU^ cap. 1 3- 
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