Meanwhile the armies of the Empire had established a strong colony at
Colchester in the southeast of Britain. (See map facing p. 14.)
There they built a temple and set up the statue of the Emperor
Claudius, which the soldiers worshiped, both as a protecting god and
as the representative of the Roman Empire.
The army had also conquered other places. One of these was a little
native settlement on a bend in the Thames where the river broadened
slightly. It consisted of a few miserable huts and a row of
intrenched cattle pens. It was called in the British tongue Llyn-din
or the Fort-on-the-pool. This name, which was pronounced with
difficulty by Roman lips, eventually became known wherever ships sail,
trade reaches, or history is read,--London.