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Lo, now the imperial speedy messengers;
Passed through Main Gaul, to those sea-camps arrive.
And, in armed troops, behold, Rome's legionaries,
Wander like robbers; and they spoil the Gauls!
Yet, weary of this new license, not few soldiers,
To hear the letters read, revert to castrum.
Sitting, before them, on high bank of sods,
Plautius' proprætor, then, oration made;
He magnifies the high clemency of Claudius,
Permitting draw, to winter-camps, the legions.
Great, then, their shout, Live Cæsar! from the shore.
Advance the eagles! Leave this curséd place!
Passed through Main Gaul, to those sea-camps arrive.
And, in armed troops, behold, Rome's legionaries,
Wander like robbers; and they spoil the Gauls!
Yet, weary of this new license, not few soldiers,
To hear the letters read, revert to castrum.
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Plautius' proprætor, then, oration made;
He magnifies the high clemency of Claudius,
Permitting draw, to winter-camps, the legions.
Great, then, their shout, Live Cæsar! from the shore.
Advance the eagles! Leave this curséd place!
Flavius Vespasian, with the legion pia;
Which stationed to defend the Roman pale,
Against incursions of nigh warlike Almains,
Letters received, hath written back to Rome;
That for new tumult, grown, beyond the Rhine,
Might he, as yet, not march, in aid, to Aulus.
Which stationed to defend the Roman pale,
Against incursions of nigh warlike Almains,
Letters received, hath written back to Rome;
That for new tumult, grown, beyond the Rhine,
Might he, as yet, not march, in aid, to Aulus.
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