out of Homer:
[Sidenote: _Iliados. 3_.]

Nemo manus fugiat vestras, cædémque cruentam,
Non foetus grauida mater quern gessit in aluo
Horrendam effugiat cædem.

But while he was thus disquieted with the rebellion of the Britains,
and the disloiall practises of his sonne Antoninus, which to him were
not vnknowne, (for the wicked sonne had by diuers attempts discouered
his traitorous and vnnaturall meanings) at length, rather through
[Sidenote: Heriodianus. Dion Cassius. Eutropius. Dion Cassius.]
sorrow and griefe, than by force of sicknesse, he wasted awaie, and
departed this life at Yorke, the third daie before the nones of
Februarie, after he had gouerned the empire by the space of 17 yeares,
8 moneths, & 33 daies. He liued 65 yeres, 9 moneths, & 13 daies: he
was borne the third ides of April. By that which before is recited out
of Herodian and Dion Cassius, of the maners & vsages of those people,
against whome Seuerus held warre here in Britaine, it maie be
coniectured, that they were the Picts, the which possessed in those
daies a great part of Scotland, and with continuall incursions and
[Sidenote: Eutropius. Orosius.]
rodes wasted and destroyed the borders of those countries which
were subiect to the Romans. To kéepe them backe therefore and to
represse their inuasions, Seuerus (as some write) either restored
[Sidenote: _Dion Cassius_.]
the former wall made by Adrian, or else newlie built an other
ouerthwart the Ile, from the east sea to the west, conteining in
[Sidenote: _Beda_.]
length 232 miles. This wall was not made of stone, but of turfe and