Catus Decianus was theprocurator ofRoman Britain in AD 60 or 61.[1]Tacitus blames his "rapacity" in part for provoking therebellion ofBoudica.[2]Cassius Dio says he confiscated sums of money which had been given by the emperorClaudius to leading Britons, declaring them to be loans to be repaid with interest.[3]
When Boudica's army attackedCamulodunum (Colchester), the inhabitants sent to the procurator for help, but he sent only two hundred men. The city fell, and Decianus fled toGaul,[2] to be replaced byGaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus.[4] The fact that Decianus had to send men to Colchester implies that he himself was not resident there, prompting modern historians such asSheppard Frere to place him in London during this period.[5]
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