![]() 658.) It was the custom of this people to retain the names of the places they conquered, adding a latin termination and where it is british, we may infer that they had had a previous existence, and it may be urged in favour of the antiquity of these which follow, that they are neither latinized nor saxonized. The Britons prefixed this word to most places fortified by the Romans. 29.) The term Caer does not always designate a genuine british city. Places denominated Caer by the Britons, were called by the Romans Castrum, and by the Saxons Caester, Cester, Cister, Chester. fem.) a wall, or mound of defence the walls of a city, a castle, a fortress, a walled or fortified town. ![]() mas.) an inclosure, a hedge, metaphorically signifying a field.” "Cair, (sub. 226.) "Caer, the root of this wood is Cae, (sub. we never find Caer (a city) but Cair, or Kair.” (Lhuyd Arch. ![]() "Civitates-Cair,"-" ai was anciently written, where we now use ae. ![]()
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