Note 419 — Vol. II.—45.
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The History and Antiquities of Silchester, p. 12.
Silchester, a parish bordering on Berkshire, about 7 miles N. from Basingstoke, and 45 from London, contains, according to the last census, 85 houses and 407 inhabitants. It is supposed to have been once a populous city, called by the Romans “Segontiaci,” by the Britons “Caer-Segont,” and by the Saxons “Silcester,” or the great city. Capper.—Ed.
[420] Livy, b. i.
[421] Plutarch in Romul. See Kennet’s Antiquities of Rome, p. 29.
[422] I should like to be informed the meaning of these letters—there is no date to the monument. J. R. J.