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 "It meanes thus much:—The companies of scouts receiving double pay, or rather souldiers of the band or company receiving double pay, dedicated an altar at Bremenium to his Majesty," (you must conceive some Roman Emperor,)* "when they made good their vow willingly as by him deserved, Caspio Charitimus (for so it must be read) was their Tribune or cheif commander.

"It is a piece of antiquity highly to be valued, almost near veneration, which, having still preserved the name and memory of the decayed station, may now be instead a tomb-stone to it, fallen into its own ashes, as well it was formerly erected to the Emperor's honour, and for his safety. And if Cicero could make such boast for finding out the grave of the mathematician Archimedes, humilis homunculi, as he saith, a very mean man, not full two hundred years after his burial, yet quite unknown to his countrymen the Syracusians, how much more deservedly might our Camden have taken upon him, who, after thirteen hundred years at least, discovered the name and ruines of the most valiant and resolute garrison of Britain, the bulwarke sometimes and the defence of the natives as well as the provincialls, wherefore to illustrate a little in behalf of the youth of this island, studious of glorious things long before their own times, I should count no losse of time or pains."

{{smaller block|The Romans being their Lords or Masters, the late Duplar (or double pay) Engineers having completed their Survey of Britain, determined to erect an {{sc|Altar}} in this Camp to its presiding Deity, Caius Cæsar—Aratinus being Tribune, they most willingly pay their vow to him {{SIC|deserviug|deserving}} it, (i.e. to Cæsar.) {{nop}} {{smallrefs}}