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Tacitus, The Histories, Volumes I and II

Note 106 — BOOK I

W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Fyfe translation

The Ubii had been allowed by Agrippa to move their chief town from the right to the left bank of the Rhine. Ten or twelve years later (a.d. 50) a colony of Roman veterans was planted there and called Colonia Claudia Augusta Agrippinensium, because Agrippina, the mother of Nero, had been born there.

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