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EXAMPLES OF DISTORTION OF SOURCES Jowett claims that learning, and elsewhere in his commentaries notes the druids' belief in the immortality of the soul, he nowhere mentions British cities, architecture or universities. He claims that "the early Christian and Roman records abound with the name and warrior fame of Arviragus" (supposedly a British Christian prince who led the defence against the Roman Conquest ), and quotes Juvenal as saying "Hath our great enemy Arviragus, the car borne British King, dropped from his battle throne?" as an example. This cryptic mention, in a satirical poem about Roman social life, is the only mention of Arviragus 's name in the entirety of classical literature, and all other known references to him are derivative of Geoffrey Of Monmouth 's 12th Century '' Historia Regum Britanniae '', also an imaginative nationalist pseudohistory. He claims that, of , the probably Christian wife of Aulus Plautius , was a Briton, also called "Gladys", citing Tacitus's ''Annals'' 13:32 in support of this assertion; Tacitus does mention Pomponia, and the fact that she was accused of "foreign superstition", but nowhere does he call her "Gladys" or claim she was British. He regularly cites the ''Annales Ecclesiastici'' of Caesar Baronius , the 16th Century church historian. On one occasion he directly quotes him, regarding Joseph of Arimathea's journey, as saying, under the year AD 36 , "In that year the party mentioned was exposed to the sea in a vessel without sails or oars. The vessel drifted finally to Marseilles and they were saved. From Marseilles Joseph and his company passed into Britain and after preaching the gospel there, died." Examination of the text for that year shows no sign of this passage. On other occasions he will put a passage in quotation marks, but not cite its provenance. Where he does cite sources, as shown above, he can often be demonstrated to be taking enormous liberties with them. REFERENCES
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