Itinerarium curiosum (centuria II)

VOLUME II.

Chapter 22,537 wordsPublic domain

47 _Cæsaromagus_, Chelmsford 12

48 _Camulodunum_, Colchester

49 Profile of Julius Cæsar, from a Marble of Dr. Mead’s

50 The Carpentry of Cæsar’s Bridge over the Rhine

51 Side View of Cæsar’s Bridge

52 Cæsar’s Camp at Deal

53 Cæsar’s Passage over the Stour near Chilham

54 Cæsar’s Camp on Barham Downs 7

55 View from a Roman Tumulus on Barham Downs

56 Julaber’s Grave

57 Another view of Julaber’s Grave from Chilham

58 Cæsar’s Camp at Shepherton 2

59 Cæsar’s Camp on Greenfield Common 7

60 Cæsar’s Camp on Hounslow Heath 2

61 Cæsar’s Camp at Pancras 1, 8

62 Cæsar’s Camp at Kingsbury 2

63 Roman Camp at Ravensbury

64 Roman Inscriptions (Vol. I.) 67, 91

65 Roman Gate at Chester 31

66 Roman Altars found at Chester 32

67 Carving on a Rock near Chester 33

68 A Sculpture found at Rissingham

69 Roman Monuments in Durham Library 71

70 Roman Altar found at Elenborough 49

71 Back View of the Altar found at Elenborough 49

72 Basso Relievo’s found at Elenborough 49

73 Roman Inscriptions found at Elenborough 49

74 Inscriptions found near the Picts Wall 61

75 Prospect of Chester on the Wall, and the Picts Wall 60

76 Antiquities at Housteeds near the Wall 60

77 Track of the Wall towards Newcastle 66

78 Cove at Stanton Drew 172

79 Two Views at Stanton Drew 173, 176

80 Druid Temples

81 Druid Temples

82 View of the Giant’s Castle in Glenbegg, Scotland

83 Celtic Temples

84 British Circus near Penrith 43

85 Six Barrows near Stevenage, Herts

86 Celtic Monuments in Germany

87 Celtic Monuments in Ireland

88 Celtic Monuments in Zeeland

89 Celtic Monuments in Ireland

90 Devil’s Arrows near Burrowbridge 74

91 Druid Temple and Grove at Trerdrew, Anglesey

92 Druid Temple at Winterburn

93 Kromlechen

94 Celtic Sepulchres

95 Celtic Sepulchres

96 Brass Celts

97 View of Malling Abbey

98 South Arch of York Choir

99 Kirkley’s Abbey, Yorkshire

100 Religious Ruins

101 Temple of the Winds at Athens (Vol. I.) _Pref._

102 Temple of Minerva at Syracuse (Vol. I.) _Pref._

103 Bust of Marcus Modius at Wilton (Vol. I.) 185

Mappa Brittaniæ Faciei Romanæ, secundùm Fidem Monumentorum perveterum depicta.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] _Covinus Cimbricus, sicut hodie utuntur._

[2] In one of the carved monuments Venus stands in an apartment of a building, seeming to be combing her hair; perhaps from a bath. However, at Rome was a statue of Venus holding a comb, not an improper utensil for the goddess of beauty, not a little of which consists in the hair. Thus says Claudian,

_Thessalico roseos nectebat pectine crines._

So Juno, when dressing herself to recover the love of her husband, is represented by the father of the poets combing her hair: Il. ξ. _depexos nitide nodo substricta capillos_. But the reason of the statue before mentioned was thus: there was a cutaneous distemper among the Roman women, injurious to their hair; for they were forced to cut it all off: therefore they dedicated a statue to _Venus Pectinigera_, upon which their hair came again as fine as ever. This story is told in Suidas.

[3] Solinus cap. XXII. de mirabilibus Britanniæ. Mela de Situ Orbis lib. III. cap. V.

[4] Iliad Σ. v. 606. & Ξ. v. 200. Florus Histor. Rom. lib. I. cap. XIII. Rutilii Numat. Itin.

[5] Strabo de Geogr. lib. I. p. 4, 9, &c.

[6] Exodus cap. III. v. 3.

[7] Stromat. lib. VI. p. 658.

[8] Aristoteles lib. de Mundo c. III. Plinius Nat. Hist. lib. II. c. LXVI. LXVII. LXVIII. &c. M. Capella lib. VI. &c. &c.

[9] Strabo Geogr. lib. passim. Dionysius Characenus passim. Mela de Situ Orbis lib. I. c. 1. & III. c. 1. Æthicus, Rufus Festus Avienus de Ora Marit. v. 390, &c. &c.

[10] Johannes Tzetza variæ Histor. Chiliad. 8. Philostratus L. apud Photium, p. 1011.

[11] Orpheus, Homerus, Cointus Smyrnæus, &c. fere omnes.

[12] Fere omnes, uno ore.

[13] Cosmas Ægyptus Cosmogr. Christian. lib. II. p. 131, &c. &c.

[14] Vide infra N. 45. & Ricard. p. 12. XII. &c.

[15] Æneid. lib. VIII. v. 727. B. Hieronymus ad Gerontiam sub fin. Plinius N. H. lib. XIX. c. I. Julius Celsus in vita Cæsaris, p. 44.

[16] Servius Honoratus, ad loc. cit. Virgilii.

[17] e XII. Panegyricis unus p. 265. Edit. Stephani.

[18] Æthicus Cosmogr. p. 705. Isidorus Hisp. Orig. lib. XIV. c. VI.

[19] Catullus in Cæsarem epigr. 30. v. 13.

[20] Vet. Epigram. apud Scaligerum.

[21] Apud Jornandem de Rebus Geticis.

[22] XII. Panegyr. p. 258.

[23] Sed vide Cæsar de Bello Gal. lib. V. c. XIII.

[24] Pag. 1.

[25] Caput de Brit.

[26] In Cæsarem epigr. XXX. v. 4.

[27] Ad Furium & Aur. epigr. XI. v. 12.

[28] Ode XXXV. ad Fortunam.

[29] Tom. V. p. 848.

[30] Hegessipus lib. II. c. IX.

[31] Ricard. p. 25.

[32] Hegessipus.

[33] De Bello Pharsal. lib. VIII. v. 442.

[34] Lib. X. v. 456.

[35] De Malii Theodosii Cons. v. 51

[36] Solinus Cap. de Britannia.

[37] Vet. Poet. apud Scaligerum.

[38] Isidorus Hisp. orig. lib. XIV. c. VI. e Virgilio Ecl. I. v. 67.

[39] Alfredus apud Higdenum.

[40] Vet. Poet. apud Scalig.

[41] Ibid.

[42] Lib. III. c. X.

[43] Appianus in Præf. vide & Isidorum Hisp. vel potius Solinum apud Ricardum p. 101. XXI.

[44] L. Florus lib. III. cap. X.

[45] De Secundo Cons. Fl. Stilichonis v. 149.

[46] Cosmogr. Christ. p. 113.

[47] Lib. LX. p. 957.

[48] Vet. Poet. apud Scalig.

[49] Hegessipus.

[50] Maximiano & Constantino dictus p. 258.

[51] Ibid.

[52] Vellejus Paterculus Histor. Rom. lib. II.

[53] Panegyr. supra-laudatus p. 262.

[54] Cap. II. p. 98. editionis Havn.

[55] Lib. de Mundo. c. III. Plinius Nat. Hist. lib. III. cap. I.

[56] Tacitus vita Agricolæ c. XXXVIII.

[57] Dio Cassius Hist. Rom. lib. XXXIX. pag. 114.

[58] Nat. Hist. lib. IV. cap. XVI.

[59] Cap. de Britannia.

[60] Lib. VI.

[61] Lib. I. cap. II.

[62] Cosmogr. p. 730.

[63] Cap. I. p. 67.

[64] Hist. Eccl. lib. I. cap. I.

[65] Cap. II. p. 97.

[66] Hist. Rom. lib. LXXVI. p. 867.

[67] De rebus Geticis.

[68] Elphinstone’s new correct Map of North Britain.

[69] ° ´ Joh. Speed in Theatre, p. 131. ad 60 25 Herm. Moll in Tour through G. B. vol. III. 59 20 Rob. Gordon Atl. Blavian. vol. VI. 59 18 Joh. Senex General Atlas, p. 233. 59 13 Rob. Mordon in Cambd. Brit. 59 8 De Wit and Danckert’s Maps 59 2 Tim. Pont. Atl. Blav. vol. VI. 58 57 Jos. Kelly Navig. p. 91. 58 47 J. Seller’s Tables, p. 292. 58 37 J. Elphinstone’s Map, 1745. 58 31

[70] Secundum pag. 94. LIV.

[71] Solinus cap. de Brit.

[72] Observationes ad P. Melam Hagæ comitis 1658. 4.

[73] Johannis, Jacobi & Abrahami Gronovii Editiones Pompon. Melæ, Julii Honorii, Æthic. &c. Lugd. Bat. 1685. 8. 1696. 8. & 1722. 8. Maj.

[74] Primitus hæc insula vocabatur _Albion_ ab Albis rupibus circa littora maris a longe apparentibus. R. Higdeni Polychron. lib. I. p. 191.

[75] Pag. 157.

[76] Aristoteles lib. de Mundo cap. III. Plinius H. N. lib. IV. c. XVI. Ptolemæus Geogr. lib. II. c. III. &c. Buchananus eam _Albium_ appellat.

[77] Diodorus Siculus Biblioth. Hist. lib. II. c. III. è Hecatæo, &c.

[78] Platonis Timæus.

[79] Plin. N. H. lib. VII. cap. LVI. Κασσίτερα apud Steph. Byzant. de urbibus.

[80] Vopiscus in Floriano. Prosper Aquitanus apud _Cambd._ Brit. p. XXVII. Gildas de excid. Brit. cap. V. X. & XIV. Ricardus Corin. lib. I. cap. VI. 29. &c.

[81] Silius Italicus lib. XVII. v. 421. Ricardus Corin. lib. I. cap. VI. 50. e Cl. Claudiano de IV. cons Honorii v. 32. Arnsgrimus Jonas Specim. Island. Hist. parte II. pag. 120. Sir Robert Sibbald apud Cambdenum edit. Gibsoni, p. 1089, &c.

[82] Cambd. Brit. pag. 27. Seldenus in Polyolbion, p. 20.

[83] Cambdenus, ut supra.

[84] Lhuydii Archæolog. Brit. pag. 219. col. 4.

[85] Histor. Rom. lib. LXII. pag. 702.

[86] Plin. N. H. lib. IV. cap. XVI.

[87] Perottus, Lilius Gyraldus, Cambdenus, &c.

[88] Lib. de Mundo c. III.

[89] Vide Notes on Cambden’s Brit. Edit. Gibs. p. 18. (X).

[90] Bocharti Canaan, lib. I. c. XXXIX.

[91] Strabo Geogr. lib. II. p. 191.

[92] N. H. lib. XXXIV. cap. XVI.

[93] Ut supra pag. 721.

[94] a _Brith_, Britannica voce, addita Græca terminatione _tania_ pag. 28, 29, 30. Edit. Gibsoni.

[95] Glossarium Antiq. Britann. voce _Alvion_, p. 13.

[96] A littoribus ferventibus, & mari vel oceano circumfluo tam mire semper æstuoso. Glossarium ad X. Scriptores voce _Britannia_.

[97] Consulas omnino Daviesium, Lhuydium & Boxhornium, qui Lexica Britannicæ ling. scripserunt.

[98] History of the World, lib. I. cap. VIII. § 5. nec non & Robinson Annal. Mundi, pag. 97.

[99] Hist. ut supra. l. c.

[100] De Situ Orbis, lib. III. cap. I.

[101] Ptolemæus Geogr. lib. II. c. II.

[102] _Transiit_ (D. Paulus) _Oceanum & qua facit insula portum, Quasque Britannus habet terras, quasque ultima Thule._

Venantius Fortunatus, &c.

[103] Hist. of Great Brit.

[104] In Glossar. ad X. Script. voce _Brit._

[105] Unam tantum exhibere volo. Inter Cn. Pompejum & Cn. Vibium humili loco natum, tantus error extitit de paribus lineamentis, ut Romani Vibium Pompeji _nomine_, Pompejum Vibii _vocabulo_ cognominarent. Solinus cap I.

[106] Aristoteles, Diodorus, Strabo, Ptolemæus, Agathemerus, Polyænus, Dio, Clemens Alex. Epitom. Strab. D. Joh. Chrysostomus tom. III. Joan. Tzetza, &c.

[107] Cleomedes, Nummus Alabandensis, M. Heracleota, Chrysostomus tom. IV & V. Polyænus, &c.

[108] M. Heracleota, p. 57, 58, 59, 60, Ptolemæus apud Steph. de urbibus.

[109] M. Heracleota, p. 57, 58, 59.

[110] Apud Camb. Brit. p. 1.

[111] Dionysius Char. Polybius, Joh. Tzetza, &c.

[112] Aristoteles, M. Heracl. p. 9, 33.

[113] Ptolemæus, Agathemerus, &c.

[114] Johan. Tzetza.

[115] Lucius Ampelius.

[116] Lib. VIII. p. 526.

[117] Aped Gruter. p. CCCCLXXXII.

[118] Strabo, &c.

[119] Dionysius, &c.

[120] Monachi fere omnes.

[121] Juvenalis Lib. V. v. 705. Martialis lib. IX. epig. 22. Inscriptiones variæ.

[122] Inscrip. variæ, Ausonius, &c. Romani suos provinciales constanter _Britannos_, dicunt; quanquam ipsi provinciales sese _Brittones_ appellari gaudeant. Buchan. Rerum Scot. lib. I. c. I.

[123] Lib. IV. c. XVI.

[124] Pag. 673. tom. III. p. 676 tom. III. p. 696. tom. V. p. 635. tom. V. p. 846. tom. VI. p. 111. tom. VIII. &c.

[125] Joh. Tzetzæ variæ Hist. Chil. 8. cap. CCXVII. v. 719, &c.

[126] Lib. de Mundo cap. III.

[127] Orbis descrip. v. 565.

[128] Lib. II. de Geogr. cap. IV. p. 39.

[129] De Mundo liber.

[130] Dionysius Characen. Orb. desc. v. 566, &c.

[131] Chil. 8. 678.

[132] Lib. I. de Geogr. c. II. p. 5. Vide & Non. Marcell. c. I. de prop. sermon.

[133] Noct. Attic, lib. II. cap. XXII.

[134] Lib. de Mundo, cap. III.

[135] Johan. Tzetza, Chil. 8. 626.

[136] De situ Daniæ, cap. I.

[137] De situ Orbis, lib. II. c. VI.

[138] De Geogr. lib. IV. cap. 45. & V. cap. 4.

[139] De situ Brit. lib. I. cap. VIII. 10.

[140] Cæsar de Bello Gall. lib. II. cap. IV.

[141] Cæsar de B. G. lib. V. cap. XXIII.

[142] Notæ in Cæsar. p. 124.

[143] Descript. Orbis, v. 284, &c.

[144] Edit. Oxoniæ Hudson. 1717. 8. p. 50. No. I.

[145] Hist R. lib. XXXIX. pag. 114. consulas & Phil. Trans. N. 193.

[146] Hist. Nat. lib. III. cap I.

[147] e Thesauro Oyzeliano XXVII. Tab 12. exhibet Grævius in Florum p. 526. Edit. Amst. 1702. 8. Maj.

[148] Hist. Rom. lib. LXXVI. p. 867.

[149] Edit. Havniæ 1757, p. 67.

[150] Cosmog. p. 731. Edit. Gron.

[151] Hist. lib. I. cap. II.

[152] Rom. Hist. lib. LXXVI. p. 867.

[153] In Geticis suis.

[154] Vide infra, pag. 162.

[155] Hist. Eccl. lib. I. cap. I.

[156] Origin. lib. XIV. c. VI.

[157] Caput de Brit.

[158] Apud Salmasium. Plin. Exercit. cap. XXIII.

[159] X̅X̅X̅ oportet legere.

[160] Editor Bedæ oper. Cantabr. 1722. Fol. Maj.

[161] Nat. Hist. lib. II. cap. CVIII.

[162] Censorinus de Die Nat. cap. XIII.

[163] In oratione Ægyptiaca.

[164] Ogyg. p. 11, 12, &c. Inis Mor. apud Cambd. Brit. p. 6. (h.)

[165] Philostr. Dion.

[166] Geogr. script. Græcorum min. 8. Oxoniæ 1703.

[167] Vide supra, pag. 157. N. 52.

[168] Mela de situ Orbis, lib. III. cap. VI.

[169] Comment. de B. G. lib. V. c. XIII.

[170] Biblioth. Hist. lib. V. c. XXI.

[171] Geogr. lib. IV. p. 199.

[172] De Bell. Gal. lib. V. cap. XIII.

[173] Philos. Trans. N. 330. pag. 266.

[174] Bibl. Hist. lib. V. cap. XXI.

[175] Geogr. lib. II. pag. 63, & 128.

[176] De Bell. Gall. lib. V. cap. XIII.

[177] Bibl. Hist. lib. V. c. XXI.

[178] Geogr. lib. IV. p. 199.

[179] Iliad Σ. 487.

[180] Ptolemæus, &c.

[181] Bibl. Hist. lib. V. c. XXI.

[182] De Bell. Gall. lib. V. cap. XIII.

[183] Bibl. Hist. lib. V. cap. XXI.

[184] Geogr. lib. IV. p. 199.

[185] Ibid. lib. II. p. 128.

[186] N. H. lib. IV. c. XVI.

[187] Lib. IV. p. 215.

[188] Cap. de Brit.

[189] Geogr. lib. II. p. 104.

[190] N. H. lib. IV. c. XVI.

[191] N. H. lib. III. c. I.

[192] Philos. Trans. N. 330. p. 266.

[193] P. 79. & 161.

[194] Vita Agricolæ, c. II.

[195] N. Salmon’s New Survey of England, vol. II. p. 841.

[196] Geogr. lib. II. p. 118, & 122.

[197] Descriptio Orbis, v. 7.

[198] Geogr. lib. II. p. 127, & 137.

[199] Polybius lib. II. p. 142. Plin. N. H. lib. III. c. V. Solinus c. VIII.]

[200] Hist. Rom. lib. CV. apud Tacitum. Vita Agr. c. X.

[201] Apud Tacitum, l. c.

[202] Climat. VII. part. II. p. 272.

[203] Bibl. Hist. lib. V. c. XXI.

[204] Geogr. lib. IV. p. 199.

[205] De situ Orbis, lib. III. c. VI.

[206] Nostra autem ætas ex multis multorum itineribus certam quodammodo totius insulæ jam deprehendit dimensionem, a _Tarvisio_ enim circumactis curvatisque littoribus per occasum ad _Belerium_ plus minus DCCCXII mill. pass. numerantur, inde conversa in austrum littoris fronte ad _Cantium_ CCCXX mill. pass. Hinc secundum Germanicum mare angulosis recessibus per DCCIIII. mill. pass. ad _Tarvisium_ protenditur, ut hac ratione totius insulæ ambitus MDCCCXXXVI. mill. colligat. _Brit._ p. 2. id est, 2140 milliaria Regia Statutaria.

[207] N. Hist. lib. IV. c. XVI.

[208] Supra, p. 90 & 100. Anonymus Ravenn. Geogr. lib. IV. cap. iv. & xi. Frontem codicis, qui in Biblioth. D. Marci Venetiis extat, ornat effigies Ptolemæi, vestitu regio induti, imposita capiti corona, error est, nonnullis quoque viris recentioris ac medii ævi. Symoni Grynæo in Præfat. ad Almagestum Basileæ 1538. &c. &, ut Vossius de Scient. Mathemat. p. 162. testatur, ante eum aliis.

[209] Lib. de rebus Geticis.

[210] De Bell. Gall. lib. V. c. XIII.

[211] Vide Horsley’s Britannia Romana, p. 361. nec non Philos. Transact. No. 190, 241, 255.

[212] Vide Dr. Stukeley’s Carausius, p. 134 & 169, &c.

[213] Geogr. lib. II. c. III.

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