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With the terror of a barbarian inroad ever before their eyes, the cohorts of the Imperial City constructed a formidable vallum, or earthen wall, from the vicinity of Linz to Regensburg, on the Danube, a distance of three hundred and fifty miles, for the purpose of raising a barrier against the advance of the warlike men of the North.
Laying down their arms in the order of their ranks, the soldiers seized their spades and axes, and worked rapidly and joyously until sloping vallum and gaping fossa girdled them round, and gave them safe refuge against a night attack. Then in noisy, laughing, gesticulating crowds they gathered in their thousands round the grassy arena where the sports were to be held.
Before these could close up all the passes, by a vallum being thrown up on all sides, five horsemen being despatched between the enemies' posts, brought the account to Rome, that the consul and his army were besieged. Nothing could have happened so unexpected, nor so unlooked-for. Accordingly the panic and the alarm was as great as if the enemy besieged the city, not the camp.
Tregonning Hill, close by, is somewhat higher, and its summit has a fine entrenchment with a striking inner vallum. The Latin epitaph to Margaret Godolphin upon her altar-tomb was written by Evelyn, and the same inscription was placed upon her coffin. Evelyn knew better than to write any fulsome compliments upon her tomb. A little westward of Tregonning is Germoe, its church dedicated to St.
The Roman way called the Stanegate comes from the eastward almost up to the station of Magna, which stands a little to the south of both Wall and Vallum, between them and Wade's road, which here approaches nearer to the Wall than it has done for many miles. Another Roman road, the Maiden Way, comes from the South closely up to the Vallum, quite near to Thirlwall castle.
"Not a whit, not a whit," said Oldbuck; "men fight best in a narrow ring an inch is as good as a mile for a home-thrust." "It is decidedly Celtic," said the Baronet; "every hill in the Highlands begins with Ben." "But what say you to Val, Sir Arthur; is it not decidedly the Saxon wall?" "It is the Roman vallum," said Sir Arthur; "the Picts borrowed that part of the word."
His line, "the Antonine Vallum," had its works on commanding ridges; and fire-signals, in case of attack by the natives, flashed the news "from one sea to the other sea," while the troops of occupation could be provisioned from the Roman fleet.
"Not a whit, not a whit," said Oldbuck; "men fight best in a narrow ring an inch is as good as a mile for a home-thrust." "It is decidedly Celtic," said the Baronet; "every hill in the Highlands begins with Ben." "But what say you to Val, Sir Arthur; is it not decidedly the Saxon wall?" "It is the Roman vallum," said Sir Arthur; "the Picts borrowed that part of the word."
Indeed, all the Latin words of the first crop in English those used during the heathen age, before Augustine and his monks introduced the Roman civilisation belong to such material relics of the older provincial culture as the Sleswick pirates had never before known: way from via, wall from vallum, street from strata, and port from portus.
"of clay and wattles made," or, where stone might be plentiful, as it is in most parts of Wales, of stone. Like a military camp, the whole place would be surrounded with fosse and vallum. They grew their own corn and vegetables, milked their own cows, fished in the streams, and supported themselves.
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