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<TEI.2><text><body><div1 type="alphabetic letter" n="F" org="uniform" sample="complete"><div2 type="entry" id="flavia-caesariensis-geo" org="uniform" sample="complete"> <head>FLAVIA CAESARIENSIS</head> 

<p><label lang="la">FLAVIA CAESARIENSIS</label> mentioned in the <foreign lang="la">Notitia</foreign> as being a division of Britain under the superintendence of a <hi rend="italics">praeses;</hi> the notice being as follows:--</p> 

<p><title>Sub dispositions viri spectabilis, vicarii Britanniarum.</title></p> 

<p><foreign lang="la">Consulares</foreign></p> <l><foreign lang="la">Maximae Caesariensis;</foreign> </l> <l><foreign lang="la">Valentiae.</foreign> </l> <l><foreign lang="la">Praesides</foreign> </l> <l><foreign lang="la">Britanniae Primae;</foreign> </l> <l><foreign lang="la">Britanniae Secundae;</foreign> </l> <l><foreign lang="la">Flaviae Caesariensis.</foreign> </l> 

<p>The other notice (for there are only two) is in Rufus Festus (<foreign lang="la">Breviarium,</foreign> 100.3): <quote>Sunt in Gallia cum Aquitania et Britanniis decem et octo provinciae . . . in Britannia, Maxima Caesariensis, Flavia, Britannia Prima, Britannia Secunda.</quote></p> 

<p>In the Map of the Monumenta Britannica, the province of Flavia Caesariensis is bounded by the (<foreign lang="la">a</foreign>) Thames, (<foreign lang="la">b</foreign>) Wales, (<hi rend="italics">c</hi>) the Mersey, Don, and Humber, (<hi rend="italics">d</hi>) the German Ocean; so that it comprises the midland and eastern counties and Lincolnshire.</p> 

<p>The authority for these lines of demarcation is unsatisfactory.
It is only <hi rend="italics">probable,</hi> first, that the name was taken from the conquests made by <foreign lang="la">Flavius</foreign> Vespasianus; and secondly, that the area thus named was as aforesaid. </p><byline>[<ref target="author.R.G.L" targOrder="U">R.G.L</ref>]</byline></div2></div1></body></text></TEI.2>