Arch of Claudius
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| Arch of Claudius |
| Inscribed on arches on the Aqua Virgo in Rome, at Boulogne, France, and at Cysicus, Turkey, AD 51 or 52 |
The Roman Senate and People to Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, son of Drusus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunician power eleven times, Consul five times,[1] Imperator 22 times, Censor, Father of the Fatherland, because he received the surrender of eleven kings of the Britons defeated without any loss,[2] and first brought barbarian peoples across the Ocean into the dominion of the Roman people.
[edit] Parallel sources
[edit] Classical sources
- Josephus, The War of the Jews 3.1.2
- Tacitus, Agricola 13-14
- Suetonius, Claudius 17, 21.6, 24.3, 28, Galba 7, Vitellius 2.4, Vespasian 4
- Dio Cassius, Roman History 60:19-22
- Eutropius, Abridgement of Roman History 7:13
- Orosius, Histories Against the Pagans 7.6
[edit] Medieval sources
- Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People 1.3
- Historia Brittonum 21
- Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain 4.12-15
