C. 3.—­This ceremony was celebrated A.D. 47, two years after that of Claudius.  Plautius had remained behind in Britain to stamp out the last embers of resistance,—­a task which all but proved fatal to Vespasian, who got hemmed in by the enemy.  He was only saved by the personal heroism and devotion of Titus, who valiantly made in to his father’s rescue, and succeeded in cutting him out.  This seems to have been in the last desperate stand made by the Britons during this campaign.  After this, with Togodumnus slain, Caradoc probably a fugitive in hiding, and the best and bravest of the land slaughtered either in the field or in the circus at Rome, British resistance was for the moment utterly crushed out.  Claudius continued his demonstrations of delight; when Plautius neared Rome he went out in person to meet him,[147] raised him when he bent the knee in homage, and warmly shook hands with him[148] [Greek:[kalos diacheirisas]]; afterwards himself walking on his left hand in the triumphal procession along the Via Sacra.[149]

C. 4.—­Rewards were at the same time showered on the inferior officers.  Cnaeus Ostorius Geta, the hero of the first riverside fight in Britain, was allowed to triumph in consular fashion, though not yet of consular rank; and an inscription found at Turin speaks of collars, gauntlets and phalera bestowed on one Caius Gavius, along with a golden wreath for Distinguished Service.  Another, found in Switzerland,[150] records the like wreath assigned to Julius Camillus, a Military Tribune of the Fourth Legion, together with the decoration of the Hasta Pura (something, it would seem, in the nature of the Victoria Cross); which was also, according to Suetonius,[151] given to Posides, one of the Emperor’s favourite freedmen.

C. 5.—­To Claudius himself, besides his triumph, the Senate voted two triumphal arches,[152] one in Rome, the other in the Gallic port whence he had embarked for Britain.  Part of the inscription on the former of these was found in 1650 on the site where it stood (near the Palazzo Sciarra), and is still to be seen in the gardens of the Barberini Palace.  It runs as follows (the conjectural restoration of the lost portions which have been added being enclosed in brackets): 

TI CLAVD [IO.  CAES.] AVG [VSTO] PONTIFIC [I.  MAX.  TR.  P. IX] COS.  VI.  IM [P.  XVI.  PP] SENATVS.  PO [PVL.  Q.R.  QVOD] REGES.  BRIT [ANNIAE.  ABSQ] VLLA.  JACTV [RA.  DOMVERIT] GENTES QVE [BARBARAS] PRIMVS.  INDI [CIO.  SVBEGERIT]

“To Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, holding for the 9th time the authority of Tribune, Consul for the 6th time, acclaimed Imperator for the 16th, the Senate and People of Rome [have dedicated this arch].  Because that without the loss of a man he hath subdued the Kings of Britain, and hath been the first to bring under her barbarous clans under our sway.”  Claudius also affixed to the walls of the imperial house on the Palatine (which was destined to give the name of “palace” to royal abodes for all time),[153] a “corona navalis”—­a circlet in which the usual radiations were made to resemble the sails, etc. of ships—­in support of his proud claim to have tamed the Ocean itself [quasi domiti oceani] and brought it under Roman sway:  “Et jam Romano cingimur Oceano."[154]