An Account of the Roman Antiquities Preserved in the Museum at Chesters, Northumberland: To which is Added a Series of Chapters Describing the Excavations Made by the Late John Clayton, Esquire, F.S.A., at Cilurnum, Procolitia, Borcovicus, and Other Sites on the Roman Wall ; with One Hundred Illustrations and a Sketch Map of the Roman WallGilbert & Rivington, Limited, 1903 - 432 pages |
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Agricola Altar dedicated Antoninus Pius Arch Augustae Aulus Platorius Nepos Aurelius bezel Borcovicus breadth 1 ft breadth 9 bridge Britain Britons bronze fibulae bronze rings brooches Bruce building built Carrawburgh Cawfields Centuria Centurial Inscription Cilurnum Cocidius coins Commodus Diameter 1 ft Dion Cassius Emperor Esica excavations feet figure fragments garrisoned gateway glass goddess Coventina Greatest diameter Greatest length Hadrian Height 1 ft Horsley Housesteads Hübner Inscriptiones iron Island John Clayton John Hodgson Latin text Legion Length 1 ft lines of Latin Maeatae Magna Mars Thingsus mile-castles miles military Mithras murus Museum at Chesters Nervii Northumberland object Old Series ornamented Portion Procolitia reads rectangular reign Roman Wall Samian ware Samian ware bowl sculptured in relief sea to sea Septen Severus side soldiers Stanegate Station of Cilurnum stele Stone altar Table-case tablet temple terra-cotta tion Tribune uninscribed upper Uppingham Vallum Vexillatio Vindolana width
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Page 237 - The western has on it, that is, on the right hand thereof, the city Alcluith, which in their language signifies the Rock Cluith, for it is close by the river of that name.
Page 205 - it is not as a woman descended from noble ancestry, but as one of the people, that I am avenging lost freedom, my scourged body, the outraged chastity of my daughters. Roman lust has gone so far that not our very persons, nor even age or virginity, are left unpolluted. But heaven is on the side of a righteous vengeance ; a legion which dared to fight has perished ; the rest are hiding themselves in their camp, or are thinking anxiously of flight. They will not sustain even the din and the shout...
Page 229 - Romans, moved with compassion, as far as human nature can be, at the relations of such horrors, send forward, like eagles in their flight, their unexpected bands of cavalry by land and mariners by sea, and planting their terrible swords upon the shoulders of their enemies, they mow them down like leaves which fall at the destined period...
Page 232 - ... more eager to shroud their villainous faces in bushy hair than to cover with decent clothing those parts of their body which required it.
Page 236 - We call these foreign nations, not on account of their being seated out of Britain, but because they were remote from that part of it which was possessed by the Britons ; two inlets of the sea lying between them...
Page 231 - No sooner were they gone, than the Picts and Scots, like worms which in the heat of mid-day come forth from their holes, hastily land again from their canoes, in which they had been carried beyond the Cichican * valley, differing one from another in manners, but inspired with the same avidity for blood...
Page 232 - ... decent clothing those parts of their body which required it. Moreover, having heard of the departure of our friends, and their resolution never to return, they seized with greater boldness than before on all the country towards the extreme north as far as the wall.
Page 231 - ... built a wall different from the former, by public and private contributions, and of the same structure as walls generally, extending in a straight line from sea to sea, between some cities, which, from fear of their enemies, had there by chance been built. They then give energetic counsel to the timorous natives, and leave them patterns by which to manufacture arms.
Page 239 - Romans declared to the Britons, that they could not for the future undertake such troublesome expeditions for their sake...
Page 200 - Had my moderation in prosperity been equal to my noble birth and fortune, I should have entered this city as your friend rather than as your captive; and you would not have disdained to receive, under a treaty of peace, a king descended from illustrious ancestors and ruling many nations.