'Sempronius' - The Centurion of the Romans

'i was prisoner to the romans, and they bound me and left me lying for ten hours under the side of one of their stranded ships,' he writes. 'They took me away through their camp and a mile down the dingles where the roman legionaries were digging fosses and making their camp in the ruddy flicker of watch fires under the british oaks' He adds: 'Perhaps sempronius is going to have a private procession of his own when he gets back to the tiber. And wishes early to collect prisoners for his chariot tail'