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commonly infinuated his Conquefl: here * coft no Blood. 
' Our Countryman Bedcy we may fee, was of that opi- 
nion ; becaufe, in the Account given by him of CUudim^ 
the Words of Suetonius ^ are copied- But Dio Cajfius^ 
from whom we have the moll particular Information of 
that War, gives a quite different Relation of the Mat- 
ter: He takes notice of at lead Four Battels, fought 
with the Britons ( before Claudius came over ) by Aulus 
Tlautitts\ who had Flavius P^efpaJjanus, Flavius Sahinus, 
and Hcjidius G^ta, that commanded under him.* In the 
firft Conflidf, Cataratacus was defeated ; in the fecond, 
Togodumnus, and, as may be infcrr’d from his Words 
afterwards, (lain. From the manner of his delivering 
the Story, all thofe Battels feem to have been fought, 
South of the River Thames^ and North of the Sjlva 
Anderida, except the lafl ; and that in the fir ft Cam- 
pagne the Conquefts of Flautius could not have exten- 
ded beyond Kent and Surry : For it s likely ^ that the 
Two firft Atftions happen’d about the Skirts of the 
Sjlva Anderida, Eaftward of rise River Medrray; and the 
Third, which held Two Days, on the Banks of that 
River ; becaufe, from the River, where they were rout- 
ed Two Days fucceffively, the Britons retiring, afiem* 
bled f their Strength again before their Fourth Over- 
throw, 
* Suet. Claud, cap. 17. Ac fine uUo prxlio aut fanguine, intva paucijfi- 
mos dies parte infula in deditionefn recepla, fiexto qnam profeRus erat men- 
f* Romam rediit 3 Beda Ecclef. Hi!l. Gent. Angl. Lib. I. cap. 2. 
+ Dionis Caffii Hift. Rom. Lib. LX. Claud. V. p 768. A. Oj ^ Bfer- 
TfUo} fjti anrii <fi' Smp Iwuu.SttVov'Je i 
td'ts <wmi baSoj', e? 7? m if jdf Zhat ng.TitiU~ 
jPK, y omg Fin n heuaHgpj ft ’IhaIis tyi’ 
yim, dlttKAt-wi (oJtkj 'O turn OXcuitj© 
ff^ify iTti Q iSgi vmi (mV iTtfjct, To- 
jp/s/tMfoji cTBUc/k{ c,niKtmy-—fvyl/]ay ^ hieivay crg/ssi uf 
mi i} 4 perlo. ’ Pag. 678. D. J'’ 
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