Britain
place · 5 works · 5 mentions · 9 anchored passages
England · Great Britain · the British government · the British island
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Remote region cited as a hypothetical destination for Posidonius's sphere.
But if anyone should carry into Scythia or Britain that sphere which our friend Posidonius lately made, whose single revolutions bring about the same in the sun and in the moon and in the five wandering stars as is brought about in the heaven on single days and nights, who in that barbarous land would doubt that that sphere had been perfected by reason?
Stromata
Island cited for a cave whose acoustics produce cymbal-like sounds from wind.
when, then, the wind falls into the cave and dashes against the recesses of the hollow, a sound is heard as of cymbals beaten in rhythm.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Great Britain / England, invoked both as the former sovereign whose internal interference was resented and as a comparative case study in commercial policy.
The case of Britain differs from these in the protecting-duty item;
We felt with great resentment the usurpations of internal powers over this country by Great Britain.
The English protecting-duty system does not impair the facility and freedom of exchanges, as to internal or domestick commerce, in any degree;
Consolation to Polybius
Island hoped to be opened up by Caesar's future military campaigns.
May he bring peace to Germany, open up Britain, and lead both his father's triumphs and new ones;
The Genius of the Common Law
The island later becoming England, described as a Roman and Celtic province in the era discussed.
and those roots must be sought for as far back as the customs of the Germanic tribes who confronted the Roman legions when Britain was still a Roman province and Celtic.