Editing Catus Decianus

{{short description|1st century AD procurator of Roman Britain}}
'''Catus Decianus''' was the [[Procurator (Roman)|procurator]] of [[Roman Britain]] in AD 60 or&nbsp;61.<ref name="Aldhouse-Green2014">{{cite book|author=Miranda Aldhouse-Green|title=Boudica Britannia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YpJ9AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT243|date=1 May 2014|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-86629-9|pages=243–}}</ref> [[Tacitus]] blames his "rapacity" in part for provoking the [[Boudican_revolt|rebellion]] of [[Boudica]].<ref name="tac14.32">[[Tacitus]], ''[[Annals (Tacitus)|Annals]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Tac.+Ann.+14.32 14.32]</ref> [[Cassius Dio]] says he confiscated sums of money which had been given by the emperor [[Claudius]] to leading Britons, declaring them to be loans to be repaid with interest.<ref>[[Cassius Dio]], ''Roman History'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/62*.html#2 62.2]</ref>

When Boudica's army attacked [[Camulodunum]] ([[Colchester]]), the inhabitants sent to the procurator for help, but he sent only two hundred men. The city fell, and Decianus fled to [[Gaul]],<ref name="tac14.32" /> to be replaced by [[Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus]].<ref>Tacitus, ''Annals'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Tac.+Ann.+14.38 14.38]</ref> The fact that Decianus had to send men to Colchester implies that he himself was not resident there, prompting modern historians such as [[Sheppard Frere]] to place him in London during this period.<ref>Frere, ''Britannia'', 2nd edition (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978), p. 229</ref>

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