An Account Of A Roman Inscription, Found At Chichester,

to him and the Romans , * had given him the government of some part of the island by that Emperor , nothingcould be more grateful in regard to Claudius , nor more honourable to himself , after he was Romanised , than to

take the names of a benefactor to whom he was indebted for his kingdom , and so call himself TIBEBIVS CLAVDIVS

COGIDVBNVS . I suppose him to have been a regains of the Dobuni ; because we are told by Dion Cassius , f that Aulus Plautius having put to flight Cataratacus and Togodumnus , sons of Cunobelin , part of

the Boduni ( the same people as the Dobuni ) who were subject to the Catuellani , submitted to the Romans ; and the name Cogidubnus or Cogiduonus , Too o Dubn , or Duvn , % signifying expressly in the British language

PKIKCEPS DOBVNOKVM , seems to put the matter out of all doubt . How far his territories extended , it is hnpossible to define . Bishop Stillingfleet , § supposes them to have lain in Surrey and Sussex ; Sussex certainl y was part of them , since the Temple mentioned in this inscription was erected in it by his authority ; and it is not

unlikely , that besides the Begni , who were the people of those two counties , lie might have that part of the Dobuni which had submitted to the Romans , iind seems to have been his own principalitytogether with the Anealitcs

^ , Bihroci and Segontiaei ; whose countries jay between the Dobuni and the Eeyni , bestowed upon him ; the words dvitatcs qucedam in Tacitus , not importing "lore than some few Towns but several

people , the word eivilas always signif ying a people in that historian . Before I proceed any farther , it will not be amiss to 'observe , that Togodum-» M ' -s and Oogidubnus , though their names ai'e so much alike , were two distinct

persons . The first was son of Cunobelin King of the Trinobantes , vanquished and killed in battle by Aulus Plautius . The second a prince that submitted to Ostorius Scapula , and continued in his fidelity to the Romans , m nostrum usque

memoriam , says Tacitus , who was born at the latter end of Claudius ' s reign ; so that Togodumnus Avas probably dead before Cogidubnus had his government conferred upon him . I call it his government , for though

by the letter E standing in the inscription with a point both before and after it , by which it plainly denotes an entire word of itself , it may seem that it was intended for COGIDVBNIKEGIS , and I believe was so in respect of his quondam dignity , yet it is evident that he had

condescended to take the title of LEGATVS AVGVSTI m BIUTAKNIA from Olauclibs ; and that too must have been only over those people that he had given him the government of , Aulus Plautius , Ostorius Scapula , Didius Gallus , Avitus Veranius ,

and Suetonius Paullinus , having the supreme command successively about this time in this island , the second and ; last of which are called expressly Legati by Tacitus . * The Legati Ccesaris or Augusti were those qui ecesaribus

subditas rcgcbant Provincias . The sixth line lias lost at the beginning the letters COLLE , but so much remains of the word as makes it to have indubitably , when entire , uOLLEGlVM , and the following letters are an abbreviation of I'ABKOltVlI .

These colleges of artificers were very ancient at Rome , as ancient as their second king Niuua Pompilius , if we may believe Plutareh . f who tells us that the people were divided by him into what we at this day call companies

of tradesmen , and mentions the Textoues or Fah-i among them , though Elorus % says , that Popvius Bomanus a Servio Tullio relatus fwit in censuon , digastus in Classes Curiis alquc Collegiis clistrbutus .