CASSI
Eth.
CASSI in Britain.
The name of a population sufficiently eastward to be mentioned by Caesar (
Caes. Gal. 5.21); indeed,
Cassi-velaunus was their king, and the Oppidum Cassi-velauni (Caes.
l.c.) was a stockaded village, probably, in the present Hundred of
Cassio-bury.
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