Note 036
From Chapter 30 of the Decline & Fall

Venit et extremis legio praetenta Britannis Quae Scoto dat frena truci. De Bell. Get. 416.

Yet the most rapid march from Edinburgh, or Newcastle, to Milan, must have required a longer space of time than Claudian seems willing to allow for the duration of the Gothic war.

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