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Adminius, Amminius or Amminus was a son of Cunobelinus, ruler of the Catuvellauni, a tribe of Iron Age Britain. His name can be interpreted as Celtic Adminius appears to have persuaded Caligula that Britain was vulnerable to attack and that an invasion would be an even more famous victory for him. It is likely that the capture of the British prince was the germ of Caligula's initiative to launch an invasion of Britain. The invasion never happened, either because of Caligula's famous eccentricity, which Roman historians record led him to order his army to collect seashells from Gaulish beaches as war trophies, or because of a mutiny in the invasion force assembled at Boulogne. In any case, Rome's refusal to return the fugitive Adminius to his father was one of the contributory factors to growing anti-Roman sentiment in Britain, which necessitated Claudius' successful invasion of that land in 43. An inscription found in Chichester names a "Lucullus, son of Amminus". Dr. Miles Russell argues from this that Sallustius Lucullus, Roman governor of Britain in the late 1st century, was a son of this prince.
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