The message 43344862.5040307@tiscali.co.uk from Bob Dove bdfoto@tiscali.co.uk contains these words:
Greetings from Colonia Claudius.
I know that the Wallsend = World's End is a funny - the 'real' World's End is in Chelsea, part of Londinium!
Which in turn was Lon Donn before the Romans came and knocked off the 'onn' and replaced it with (to them) the more comforting 'inium'.
(Lon in one of the Gaelic languages which was spoken the length and breadth of the British Isles at the time, means 'marsh', or 'bog', and 'donn' means brown, as in 'dun'. Fits, innit.)
I know you all know too that Wallsend is where Hadrian's wall ended!
Whereas it began... ?
We all learnt at school that Hadrian built the wall to keep the Scots out, the truth of the matter is that there were probably as many gates through the wall as there were watch towers on it. To come through the gate (to trade) you had to pay a tax on your sale goods. Customs and Excise - good idea eh? Julius Caesar 'Veni, Vedi, Veci'? Nah, Veni and Vedi perhaps
ITYM 'veni, vedi, venal'
but he went home with the 'flu! Claudius' army came and found of course already Romanised Celtic tribes and Roman trading posts so the battles were probably not as extensive as the post Roman propaganda would have us believe!!! Alas, the Romans didn't have Linux...
Caesar adsum dux forte, Caesar sic in omnibus, Brutus adorat.
Brutus sic in transit?
No, he never rally conquered Unix and Linux 'cos they were free...