Trinobantes

• a people in the eastern part of Britain, in Essex and the southern parts of Suffolk, Caes. B. G. 5, 20; 5, 21; Tac. A. 14, 31.

TRINOBANTES (called by Ptolemy Τρινόαντες. 2.3.22), a people on the E. coast of Britannia Romana, situated N. of London and the Thames, in Essex and the southern parts of Suffolk, whose capital was Camalodunum (Colchester). They submitted to Caesar when he landed in Britain, but revolted against the Romans in the reign of Nero. (Caes. B. G. 5.20; Tac. Ann. 14.31.)

One of the most powerful peoples of Britain, inhabiting the modern Essex. They offered a strong resistance to the Roman forces at the time of Claudius's invasion of the island (Tac. Ann. xiv. 31).