⁷ Amminius, the brother of Caratacus and son of ‘Cymbeline’ but of the pro-Roman faction. During the century between Caesar’s invasion and the Claudian occupation, Belgic Colchester (Camulodunum) had been open to the cultural and economic influences of the Roman world and the successors of Cunobelin were divided in policy. I use the names ‘Caratacus’ and ‘Amminius’ as symbols only of the two reactions to that state of things when the full weight of a materially powerful and advanced civilization is brought to bear upon peoples of a far earlier culture-phase.