silures in a sentence
Examples
- He first led the Silures, then moved to the territory of the Ordovices, where he was defeated by Ostorius in AD 51.
- While he was away governing Gaul, the Silures tribe set up an official inscription dedicated to him despite their usual hostility to Rome.
- Another track from the Silures EP, " 21 Ghosts ", was featured on Richard X s " Back to Mine ".
- This violent desperation on the part of the Silures can be attributed to their reaction to what Peter Salway calls Ostorius'lack of political judgement.
- It was Sedgwick who established the Cambrian system and Murchison first described the Silurian, naming it for the ancient Silures tribe which occupied mid Wales.
- Around AD 55 it moved to Usk, for the conquest of the Silures, a tribe very resistant to the imposition of Roman rule in Wales.
- The Silures especially continued to harass Roman troops, supposedly after Ostorius had publicly said that they posed such a danger that they should be either exterminated or transplanted.
- Caratacus fled the storming of the town, taking refuge with the Ordovices and Silures tribes in Wales and becoming a Welsh folk hero for his resistance to Rome.
- In Wales the known tribes ( the list may be incomplete ) included the Ordovices and Deceangli in the north, and the Silures and Demetae in the south.
- It is thought that the construction of these defences was related to a general uprising of the Welsh tribes, the Ordovices and Silures, that occurred at this time.