The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 1

xiv. 31), is probably to be taken not as a sanctuary for the town

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itself, but after the analogy of the shrines of Augustus at Lugudunum and Tarraco. The _delecti sacerdotes_, who _specie religionis omnes fortunas effundebant_, are the well-known provincial priests and purveyors of spectacles.]

[116: The command stationed here was, at least in later times, without question the most important among the Britannic; and there is also mention here (for it is beyond doubt Eburacum that is in view) of a _Palatium_ (_Vita Severi_, 22). The _praetorium_, situated probably on the coast below Eburacum (_Itin. Ant._ p. 466), may have been the summer seat of the governor.]

[117: None have been found to the north of Aldborough and Easingwold (both somewhat north of York). See Bruce, _The Roman Wall_, p. 61.]