The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Ursatus ( - )

Alias Sertorio Orsato

References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) I shall add a Passage in a Letter I received from the ingenious Mr. Hearne, of the Bodleian Library, because it relates to an Au thor rare to be met with in these remote Parts: "I am mightily pleased with the Inscriptions you sent me relating to the 9th Legion, there being now no Room to doubt about the place of Residence; a Thing which was unknown before; and for that Reason, those who have written about the Roman Legions, have said nothing about this, but leave us quite in the dark; only Ursatus [in his Book de Notis Rom.] does remark that it must be somewhere in Britain, because Tacitus tells us, that when the Colony at Camalodunum was destroyed by Boadicea; Pætilius Cerealis Legate of the IX Legion, came to their Assistance; but yet he makes no mention of its being stiled Victrix."