silures in a sentence
Examples
- The Silures had been galvanised by Ostorius'ill-thought out threats to destroy them and began taking Roman prisoners as hostages and distributing them amongst their neighbouring tribes.
- Belgae and Silures also came from Gallic areas, although not strictly " Celtic ", but from " Gallia Belgica " and " Aquitainia ".
- The valley was certainly used as a major prehistoric route through the land of the Silures between the coastal plain of the Caldicot and Wentloog Levels and the Brecon Beacons.
- Unlike the Silures, their neighbours in what later became south east Wales, they were not a warlike people and submitted to the Romans even before they reached their lands.
- Interestingly these regions show an approximate correspondence to the territories of the tribes later recorded in these areas by the Romans, the Silures, Demetae, Ordovices and Deceangli respectively.
- The campaign to conquer the Silures continued under the governor Quintus Veranius and his successor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus but by now Strutt Park's r�le was to maintain the peace.
- They cleared the forests to establish pasture and to cultivate the land, developed new technologies such as ceramics and textile production, and built Cornovii, Demetae and Silures for centuries.
- Caerwent seems to have continued in use in the post-Roman period as a religious centre and the territory of the Silures later became the 5th century Welsh Kingdoms of Gwynllug.
- French recording artist Vitalic collaborated with Lamb on an extended play, entitled " All You Can Eat ", under the band name " The Silures ".
- The Roman Tacitus wrote of the Silures : " non atrocitate, non clementia mutabatur " & ndash; the tribe " was changed neither by cruelty nor by clemency ".