A few days after the death of Mataswintha and the departure of Prince Germanus, who was deeply shocked by the sad event, a message came from Castra Nova, which rendered necessary the march of Byzantine troops from Ravenna.
Here, near Karalis, they beat the troops which our magister militum had sent from Africa to conquer the island, and took Karalis as well as Sulci, Castra Trajani and Turres.
The hero lay with us in the Castle of Castra Nova, near Mantua," related Thorismuth.
Castro El Rio has all the appearance of a very ancient place, and almost all accounts agree in placing at this spot the Roman city of Castra Vinaria, called, in some authors, Castra Postumii.
The name Caerleon seems to be derived from the Latin Castra legionum, but it is not peculiar to Caerleon-on-Usk, being often used of Chester and occasionally of Leicester and one or two other places.
Rara fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur=--Faith and piety are rare among the men who follow the camp.
Nil cupientium / Nudus castra peto=--Naked 30 myself, I make for the camp of those who desire nothing.
But it is well known that, especially towards the frontiers of the Empire, in Britain, on the Rhine, and in North Africa, the towns of the second century had often grown out of the castra stativa of the legions.
But I waive this, for I am sensible it might be laid hold of by cavillers as carrying down my Castra to the time of Theodosius, sent by Valentinian into Britain as late as the year 367, or thereabout.
Meanwhile be pleased to observe, for example, that I could press into my service Claudian's famous line, Ille Caledoniis posuit qui castra pruinis.
In apposition with lata vestigia==spatiosa castra or castrorum spatia, H.
Xanten (Castra Vetera) with coins of Julius Caesar and Nero, others in the cemetery of Bibracte near Autun, which is known not to be later than the time of Augustus.
It is not known what towns are meant by Castra Herculis and Quadriburgium.
Maria degli Angeli, the square of the Castra Praetoria projects from the Avails.
For the Notitia and the Chronologers both place it in the seventh region or Via Lata, which occupied the eastern side of the Campus, and mentioncastra as attached to it.
Lenormant, who identified the ruins at Roccella with those of Castra Hannibalis, the seaport of Scylacium.
During the latter part of this war Hannibal seems to have occupied a position near to, but not in, the already ruined city, and its port was known long after as Castra Hannibalis[10].
At the northern extremity of this hill (the Viminal) are some considerable remains of a walled enclosure which bears all the appearance of a Roman camp, and therefore is generally thought to correspond with the Castra Praetoria.
Another work of the Sutra type, and belonging to the Vedic period, is the Dharma Castra of Vasishtha.
The title of Varaha Mihira's Hora-castra contains the Greek word hora.
These quoted fragments probably represent a Manava dharma-sutra which supplied the basis of our Manava dharma-castra or Code of Manu.
The most important of these is the Vaishnava Dharma Castra or Vishnu Smriti (closely connected with the Kathaka Grihya Sutra), not earlier than 200 A.
The oldest and most important work on poetics is the Natya Castra of Bharata, which probably goes back to the sixth century A.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "castra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
