hen called, than in his
vaunted conquest of Britain.]

[Footnote 502: In point of fact, he was only sixteen days in the island,
receiving the submission of some tribes in the south-eastern districts.
But the way had been prepared for him by his able general, Aulus Plautius,
who defeated Cunobeline, and made himself master of his capital,
Camulodunum, or Colchester. These successes were followed up by Ostorius,
who conquered Caractacus and sent him to Rome.

It is singular that Suetonius has supplied us with no particulars of these
events. Some account of them is given in the disquisition appended to
this life of CLAUDIUS.

The expedition of Plautius took place A.U.C. 796., A.D. 44.]

[Footnote 503: Carpentum: see note in CALIGULA, c. xv.]

[Footnote 504: The Aemiliana, so called because it contained the
monuments of the family of that name, was a suburb of Rome, on the Via
Lata, outside the gate.]

[Footnote 505: The Diribitorium was a house in the Flaminian Circus,
begun by Agrippa, and finished by Augustus, in which soldiers were
mustered and their pay distributed; from whence it derived its name. When
the Romans went to give their votes at the election of magistrates, they
were conducted by officers named Diribitores. It is possible that one and
the same building may have been used for both purposes.]

The Flaminian Circus was without the city walls, in the Campus Martius.
The Roman college now stands on its site.]

[Footnote 506: A law brought in by the consuls Papius Mutilus and Quintus
Poppaeus; respecting which, see AUGUSTUS, c. xxxiv.]

[Footnote 507: The Fucine Lake is now called Lago di Celano, in the
Farther Abruzzi. It is very extensive, but shallow, so that the
difficulty of constructing the Claudian emissary, can scarcely be compared
to that encountered in a similar work for lowering the level of the waters
in the Alban lake, completed A.U.C. 359.]

[Footnote 508: Respecting the Claudian aqueduct, see CALIGULA, c. xxi.]

[Footnote 509: Ostia is referred to in a note, TIBERIUS, c. xi.]

[Footnote 510: Suetonius calls this "the great obelisk" in comparison
with those which Augustus had placed in the Circus Maximus and Campus
Martius. The one here mentioned was erected by Caligula in his Circus,
afterwards called the Circus of Nero. It stood at Heliopolis, having been
dedicated to the sun, as Herodotus informs us, by Phero, son of Sesostris,
in acknowledgment of his recovery from