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moft powerful Nations, won Twenty Towns, and. 
brought the !fle of Wight under the Roman Obedience. 
Of which Adions, befides what might have been faid 
in the ioft Books of Annals •, Tacitus, in other Pieces, 
of his, largely ‘ hints, that when Claudius rul’d, Vef- 
pafians Behaviour and Succefs in this IBand, fliew’d to 
the World his Condud and Courage in the Affairs of 
War.* The fame is alfb taken notice of ^ by Dio: 
From his Conqueft of the Ifle of Wight, it may be, 
imply ’d, the Stage of his Ad ions here, was in thofe 
Countries which border on the South Channel rather 
than in the North ; Since therefore the Clime, the Soil, 
and the more ready Conveniencies for foreign Trade 
and Correfpondence, might entitle this Part of the Land, 
to fuflain as numerous, as flout, and as experienc’d a 
People as any other ( becaufe Cafar * takes notice they 
not only lent Aids to the yeneti in their Revolt, but 
were wont to affifl: the Gauls in moft of their Wars a- 
gainfl ^ the Romans : ) And whereas no Hiflorian af- 
terwards mentions any Difturbance given to the Rod- 
mans from the Southern Parts ; we may conclude, Fe- 
fpajian entirely fubdu d them ; and that before he left 
the Ifland, the Methods he eflablilh’d for fecuting 
Peace, were no way inferior to thofe he- had fliewn in 
making War. 
The 
* Tacit. Agricol. cap. xiii. Divus Claudius auSor operis tranfveflis le- 
gtonibus aux'tliifque^, Qp ajfumpto in partem return Vefpajiano ; quod initium 
‘Ventura max fortuna fuit, domita gentes, capti Reges, & nionjlratus fatis 
Ve/pafianus, Tacit. Hift. Lib. III. cap. xliv. Et Britanniam inclytus erga 
Vefpafianum favor^ quod illic fecunda Legioni a Claudio prapojitus, & beU 
Jo clarus egerat, non fine motu adjunxit caterarum. * Dion Caff. 
Hiff. Rom. Lib. LXV. p. 756 . C. iv^uTmv ivvoitv Lw 
Vffi aum — 3 IS ^ Bgtijeutat )i]ri Ik. n m mKtpus 
5 De Bello Gal. Lib. 111. Soctos fihi ad id Bellum Ofifmios, Lexohios, 
&>c, auxilia ex Britannia, qua contra eas Regiones pofita ejl, accerfunt. 
Idem Lib. I-V. CEamen in Britanniam profieijei contendit, quoj, omnir 
kioffte Qallifis Belli sfiojlibus-nojiris inde fubminijlrata auxilia irHelligeb.at„. 
