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A Passage in British History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

E. Harrison
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In the middle of the third book of his Histories, Tacitus records some movements in the western provinces occasioned by the events of 69. The troops in Britain, he says, were partial to Vespasian, who had served there with distinction in the reign of Claudius, and a party was formed in his interest.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , October 1907 , pp. 305 - 307
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1907

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References

page 305 note 1 H. iii. 44, 45

page 305 note 2 Ann. xii. 40.

page 305 note 3 cohortes alaeque nostrae.

page 305 note 4 Presumably in the lost part of book xi.

page 306 note 1 regnum.

page 306 note 2 I have not examined the older histories and commentaries, but up to 1875, according toT. Wright, The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon, ed. 3, p. 57, it had been ‘usual to regard the two notices as relating to one event.’ In recent times the identity of the two events is implied by Furneaux and Nipperdey Andresen in their notes on Ann. xii. 40. To the best of my knowledge, the only writers who clearly distinguish the two stories are T. Wright (loc. cit.), Sir James H. Ramsay, The Foundations of England, vol. i. p. 61, and Stein in Pauly–Wissowa′s Realento cyclopddie, s.v. Cartimandua.