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From Readings in English History Drawn From The Original Sources by Edward P. Cheyney, Ginn and Company; Boston; 1908; pp. 27-28.

Elf. Editor comments in brackets

YEAR 120 A. D.

Ælius Spartianus; The Building of the Wall by Hadrian.¹

From time to time an emperor himself came to Britain, as did Hadrian in the year A. D. 120, whose visit is278mentioned in the following passage from the historian Ælius Spartianus, alluding apparently to the building of the famous wall across the island.

18. A visit
from the
Emperor
Hadrian He went to Britain, where he corrected many things, and built a wall eighty miles long to divide the Romans from the barbarians.² Affairs being settled in Britain, he crossed to Gaul, which was disturbed by the sedition of Alexandrinus.

NOTES

1   From Ælius Spartianus, Vita Hadriani, cc. 11, 12, 16; Monumenta Historica Britannica, p. lxv.

2   Every one should read the Roman British stories in Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill. They are of course fanciful and must not be taken as exact history, but they probably represent very well the actual state of things at that time.

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