Re: Col[ne]chester (was: British Latin)

At 12:42 am -0400 10/6/01, John Cowan wrote:
>Raymond Brown scripsit:
>
>> Not likely to have been the home of the legion.  AFAIK there's no evidence
>> Colchester was a legionary settlement.
>
>According to the XX.VV timeline at
>http://www.43dln.freeserve.co.uk/legxx/xxtimel.html , they actually were
>based at Colchester during the invasion in 43 C.E.
>
Right - at the very beginning of the Roman invasion, Colchester was _the_
Roman base, so I guess whatever legions Claudius sent over would've been
base there.  But it didn't remain a legionary base, once they got the
initial province (boundary behind the Fosse Way) settled.

Ray.

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