Note 42 — Chapter I · ADVANCE OF THE ROMANS TO THE FIRTHS OF FORTH AND CLYDE.

Silius Italicus (A.D. 68) says—

Hinc pater ignotam donabit vincere Thulen,

Inque Caledonios primus trahet agmina lucos (Pun. iii. 597);

and implies that the inhabitants of Thule had encountered the Romans when he says, in another place—

Cærulus haud aliter, quum dimicat incola Thules,

Agmina falcifero circumvenit arta covinno.

Statius says of Vettius Bolanus—

Quantusque nigrantem

Fluctibus occiduis fessoque Hyperione Thulen

Intrarit mandata gerens....

Compare this with the line previously quoted.