The first consular governor to be placed in command of Britain was Aulus Plautius: soon after came Ostorius Scapula, both distinguished soldiers. The nearest portion of Britain was reduced little by little to the condition of a province: a colony of veterans was also planted. Certain states were handed over to King Cogidumnus ¹ [²] - he has remained continuously loyal down to our own times - according to the old and long-received principle of Roman policy, which employs kings as tools of enslavement.
Cogidumnus or Cogidubnus, King of the Regnenses in West Sussex, had become a client of Rome. The remarkable inscription at Chichester shows that he took the name Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus and the title legatus Augusti.
[The phrase highlighted reads in Latin: quaedam civitates Cogidumno regi donatae.]
