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Wife of Prasutagus, king of the Iceni. When conquered, she ended her life by poison, Ann. 14, 37. Expugnatis praesidiis. Having stormed the fortresses. The force of ex in this word is seen in that it denotes the actual carrying of a place by assault, whereas oppugnatus only denotes the assault itself. Ipsam coloniam. Cf. note 14: veteranorum colonia. In barbaris==qualis inter barbaros esse solet.
Antithetic to fortiorem. So in contempt, they call the veterans, cf. 14: veteranorum colonia; 32: senum colonia. Tantum limits pro patria; as if it was for their country only they knew not how to die. Si sese, etc., i.e. in comparison with their own numbers. Patriam parentes, sc. causas belli esse. Recessisset.
One was from Contra-Pselcis in Nubia along the east bank of the Nile, to Babylon opposite Memphis, and there turning eastward through Heliopolis and the district of the Jews to Clysmon, where Trajan's canal entered the Red Sea. A second, from Memphis to Pelusium, made use of this for about thirty miles, joining it at Babylon, and leaving it at Scense Veteranorum.
By these two roads a traveller could go from Pelusium to the head of the Red Sea; but there was a shorter road through the desert which joined the first at Serapion, about fifty miles from Clysmon, instead of at Sceno Veteranorum, which was therefore about a hundred miles shorter.
Aen. 6, 870: Ostendent terris hunc tantum fata. XIV. Consularium. Cf. note on it, 8. Aulus Plautius. Ann. 13, 32; Dio. 60, 19. Ostorius Scapula. Ann. 12, 31-39. Proxima, sc. Romae. Veteranorum colonia. Camolodunum. Ann. 12, 32. Now Colchester. Dr. Et reges. Kings also, i.e. besides other means. Ut vetere, etc. So in the MSS. and earliest editions.
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