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Adminius / Amminus may have persuaded Caligula that Britain was vulnerable to attack and that an invasion would be an even more famous victory for him. It is further likely that the capture of the British prince was the germ of Caligula's initiative to launch an invasion of Britain. The invasion
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In any case, Rome's refusal to return the fugitive Adminius to his father was one of the contributory factors to growing anti-Roman sentiment in Britain, which necessitated
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never happened, either because of Caligula's famous eccentricity, which Roman historians record led him to order his army to collect seashells from
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against Catuvellaunian rule. Adminius fled to continental Europe with a small group of followers and surrendered to the Romans. The
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Delamarre, Xaviere, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise, Errance, Paris, 2003 (2nd ed.), 2003, pp. 227-228.
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beaches as war trophies, or because of a mutiny in the invasion force assembled at
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An inscription found in Chichester names a "Lucullus, son of Amminus". Dr.
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it appears that, in the early to mid 1st century, he was ruler of the
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39 or 40. Cunobelinus had maintained friendly relations with the
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Miles Russell (2006), "Roman Britain's Lost Governor",
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Based on coin distribution, where his name appears as
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1st century AD ruler of the British Catuvellauni tribe
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Index

Cunobelinus
Catuvellauni
Iron Age Britain
Brittonic
Cantiaci
Kent
Suetonius
Roman Empire
Togodumnus
Caratacus
Cantiaci
emperor
Caligula
Gaulish
Boulogne
Claudius
successful invasion
Miles Russell
Bournemouth University
Sallustius Lucullus
Philip de Jersey
Suetonius
Lives of the Twelve Caesars
44
44-46
Dio Cassius
59.25
17
Sallustius Lucullus
Archived

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