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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: Book I: III. How Claudius, the second of the Romans who came into Britain, brought the islands Orcades

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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England, ed. by A.M. Sellar, [1907] In the year of Rome 798, Claudius, fourth emperor from Augustus, being desirous to approve himself a prince beneficial to the republic, and eagerly bent upon war and conquest on every side, undertook an expedition into Britain, which as it appeared, was roused to rebellion by the refusal of the Romans to give up certain deserters.