Quin etiam, quia et hoc sociis quos derelinquere cogebantur aliquid commodi adlaturum putabant, murum a mari ad mare recto tramite inter urbes quae ibidem ob metum hostium factae fuerant, ubi et Severus quondam vallum fecerat, firmo de lapide conlocarunt: quem videlicet murum hactenus famosum atque conspicuum, sumptu publico privatoque, adiuncta secum Brittanorum manu construebant, octo pedes latum et duodecim altum, recta ab oriente in occasum linea, ut usque hodie intuentibus clarum est: quo mox condito dant fortia segni populo monita, praebent instituendorum exemplaria armorum.
Moreover also, for so much they thought that would be some help and strength unto their allies whom they were now forced to forsake, they builded up a wall of hard stone from sea to sea with a straight course between the two cities which were made for fear of the enemy, in the same place where Severus before had cast the trench: which wall indeed (which even to this day remaineth famous and to be seen) they did build with public and private charges, the Britons also putting to their helping hands. It was eight foot broad and twelve high, right as it were by a line from east to west, as it doth to this day plainly appear: which being soon made they gave the fearful people straight warning, they furnish patterns for fashioning weapons.
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