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Epaticcus or Epaticcu (d. c. AD 35) was a brother of
Cunobelinus Cunobeline or Cunobelin (Common Brittonic: *''Cunobelinos'', "Dog-Strong"), also known by his name's Latin form , was a king in pre-Roman Britain from about to about Malcolm Todd (2004)"Cunobelinus ymbeline/nowiki> (d. ''c''. AD 40), king in ...
, king of the Catuvellauni, a tribe of Iron Age Britain">Catuvellauni">ymbeline/nowiki> (d. ''c''. AD 40), king in ...
, king of the Catuvellauni, a tribe of Iron Age Britain. Coins bearing his name begin to appear in the northern lands of the neighbouring Atrebates tribe and their capital, Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester), probably fell to him around AD 25. It is likely that Epaticcus was permitted to govern the area by his brother as part of the Catuvellaunian
hegemony Hegemony (, , ) is the political, economic, and military predominance of one State (polity), state over other states, either regional or global. In Ancient Greece (ca. 8th BC – AD 6th c.), hegemony denoted the politico-military dominance of ...
that was expanding across south eastern Britain at the time.


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