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Rh around Camulodunum—so bewildering is our information on the Roman campaigns in Britain.

On his return to Rome, Claudius celebrated a triumph which he had fairly earned, for his conquests were really solid and extensive; and had not his lieutenants relaxed in their vigilance, or had they been better acquainted with the character of the natives, a considerable portion of Britain south of the Humber would have quietly submitted to the yoke of the Romans. But the victors had still a lesson to learn. The easier portion of their task was to encounter the enemy in the field: to follow him into the forests and morasses, to detect and suppress promptly his cabals, and break up his confederacies, were labours yet to be undergone, and disaster far more than success was to be the instructor of a series of proconsuls.

In the year 47, Plautius was succeeded by Ostorius Scapula, who signalised his command by founding the colony of Camulodunum, and receiving, from a traitor's hand indeed, the surrender of Caractacus. The next distinguished proconsul was Suetonins Paulinus, whose name is inseparably connected with his defeat of the Britons in Anglesey (Mona), his suppression of the revolted Iceni, and the romantic story of Boadicea. "But for him," Tacitus says, "Britain would have been lost." The fury of the Iceni was especially directed against the colony at Camulodunum. It was a monument of their humiliation; so long as it stood, freedom was hopeless—the ground on which it was built had been wrenched from them—it was the abode of those whom they hated even more than the legionaries, the collectors of tribute; and in it