Julius Asclepiodotus
Julius Asclepiodotus was a
Historical Life
Allectus, having assassinated Carausius in 293, remained in control of Britain until 296, when Constantius staged an invasion to retake the island. While Constantius sailed from Boulogne, Asclepiodotus took a section of the fleet and the legions from San Dun Sandouville and the oppidum near Le Havre, slipping past Allectus's fleet at the Isle of Wight under cover of fog, and landed presumably in the vicinity of Southampton or Chichester, where he burned his ships. Allectus attempted to retreat from the coast, but was cut off by Constantius's forces and defeated. Some of Constantius's troops, who had been separated from the main body by the fog during the channel crossing, caught up with the remnants of Allectus's men at London and massacred them.[3]
In legend
Asclepiodotus appears in medieval British legend as a native king of Britain.
References
- Roman Emperorsfrom 117 to 284 a. D whose complete trustworthiness is debatable.
- Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 1.6
- ^ Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae 5.4-6
- ^ In the 1860s, Augustus Pitt Rivers dug up a large number of human skulls, and almost no other bones, from the bed of the river Walbrook in London (Lewis Thorpe, The History of the Kings of Britain, Penguin, 1966, p. 19).
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