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Caratacus became a warlord of the Ordovices and neighbouring Silures, and was declared a Roman public enemy in the 50s AD. In Caratacus' last battle, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula defeated Caratacus and sent him to Rome as a prisoner. In the 70s, the Ordovices rebelled against Roman occupation and destroyed a cavalry squadron.
Tacitus implies that the tribes on the border of the Roman province were generally hostile, kept from revolting by fear of the Roman forces and their leadership, and that they were informed of events and major personalities in the rest of Britain: "The Ordovices, shortly before Agricola's arrival, had destroyed nearly the whole of a squadron of ...
The Ordovician (/ ɔːr d ə ˈ v ɪ ʃ i. ə n,-d oʊ-,-ˈ v ɪ ʃ ən / or-də-VISH-ee-ən, -doh-, - VISH-ən) [9] is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era, and the second of twelve periods of the Phanerozoic Eon.
The Latin word Silures is of Celtic origin, perhaps derived from the Common Celtic root *sīlo-, 'seed'.Words derived from this root in Celtic languages (for example Old Irish síl, Welsh hil) are used to mean 'blood-stock, descendants, lineage, offspring', as well as 'seed' in the vegetable sense.
The Silures (and later the Ordovices) were led by Caratacus, a king who had fled South-eastern England. [4] Under Caratacus' rule, the Welsh fought the Romans in a pitched battle which led to the loss of all the Ordovician territory. [4] This defeat was not crushing, and Caratacus continued to fight the Romans, defeating two auxiliary cohorts. [4]
Tribes within the map of present-day Wales at the time of the Roman invasion. Exact boundaries are conjectural. The Deceangli or Deceangi (Welsh: Tegeingl [1] [2]) were one of the Celtic tribes living in Britain, prior to the Roman invasion of the island.
In the Iron Age and the Roman era, Rhwng Gwy a Hafren made up part of the territory of the Ordovices. [4] During the Early Middle Ages the region was evidently associated with the Kingdom of Powys, although in later centuries the monarchs of Powys exercised no control over it. [1]
Caersws was the location of two Roman forts of Roman Wales.Although the Mediolanum of the Antonine Itinerary has since been identified as Whitchurch in Shropshire, Caersws is sometimes identified as the Mediolanum among the Ordovices described in Ptolemy's Geography, [9] although others argue for Llanfyllin [10] or Meifod.