History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . ps in nseful labonrs. Corbulo set the example of thisunder Claudius ; two ofXeros lieutenants under-took, one, to finish thedike commenced sixty-three years before byDrusus. to keep back theRhine ; the other, to cutthe plateau of Langres, toconnect the Moselle Aviththe Saône. This latterundertaking f a i le dthrough the jealousy ofthe governor of Belgica,and for eighteen hundredyears no one dared carryinto execution the grandconception of the Romangeneral/ In Britain the limitsof the Roman possessions
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . ps in nseful labonrs. Corbulo set the example of thisunder Claudius ; two ofXeros lieutenants under-took, one, to finish thedike commenced sixty-three years before byDrusus. to keep back theRhine ; the other, to cutthe plateau of Langres, toconnect the Moselle Aviththe Saône. This latterundertaking f a i le dthrough the jealousy ofthe governor of Belgica,and for eighteen hundredyears no one dared carryinto execution the grandconception of the Romangeneral/ In Britain the limitsof the Roman possessionswere somewhat ill-defined;neither the northern northe western parts of theisland were Didius Gallus andunder Yeranius, his suc-cessor, there Avere constantdifficulties. To make an end of these troubles, Suetonius Paulinus,the rival in military renown of Corbulo, decided to cross theAvestern mountains and lay hands upon the A^ery sanctuary of theDruidic faith, the island of Mona (Anglesey), Avhere sat the highcollege of priests, and Avhence issued exhortations, and counsels,. Mercury (Aliiseum of Lyons).- ^ Tac, Ann., xiii. ô3. The canal makino- a junction between the Saône and tlie Aloselle isnow completed. ?^ Statuette of dark green bronze. (Comarmond. Dcxcript., etc., pi. i^. No. til.) 498 THE CESARS AND THE FLAVII, H TO 06 aud plans of revolt.^ Tho island is separated from Britain bya narrow channel and the soldiers hesitated for a moment whenthey saw on the opposite shore a crowd of Druids, among whomwomen ran about, like Furies, in funeral dress, with streaminghair, aud waving lighted torches. Meanwliile the Druids, withhands raised to heaven, pronounced horri])le imprecations. Theconflict was, however, speedily terminated; ths venerable forestsof tho Druids were cut down, and their rude altars, whereonthev sought, from the entrails of human victims, to learn the willof Ilesus and Taranis, were broken to pieces by the was the last sta
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