Silures

Frontinus, who vanquished and brought to the Romane subiection by force of armes the people called Silures, striuing not onelie against the stout resistance of the men, but also with the hardnesse & combersome troubles of the places.

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed

The Silures were the more earnestlie set against the Romans, by occasion of words which the emperor Claudius had vttered in their disfauour, as thus: that euen as the Sicambres were destroied and remooued into Gallia, so likewise must the Silures be dealt with, and the whole nation of them extinguished.

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed

In the meane time, the people called Silures, being a verie fierce kind of men, and valiant, prepared to make warre against the Romans, for they might not be bowed neither with roughnesse, nor yet with any courteous handling, so that they were to be tamed by an armie of legionarie souldiers to be brought among them.

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed

Arthur was a prince of the tribe of Britons called Silures, whose country was South Wales, the son of Uther, named Pendragon, a title given to an elective sovereign, paramount over the many kings of Britain.

The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

Arthur was a prince of the tribe of Britons called Silures, whose country was South Wales, the son of Uther, named Pendragon, a title given to an elective sovereign, paramount over the many kings of Britain.

The Age of Chivalry Thomas Bulfinch 1831

If I remember rightly Tacitus refers to Wales as being opposite Spain when he's drawing a comparison between the Silures and the Spanish tribes, and I think Julius Caesar refers to parts of southern Britain as being opposite Gaul.

Attacotti Carla 2009

If Caratacus had a following in North Wales as well as among the Silures, then Cartimandua handing Caratacus over to the Romans might be expected to provoke bad blood between the kingdoms.

Cadafael, King of Gwynedd Carla 2009

Cambria was the Latin name for Wales, and the Ordovices and Silures were two Welsh Celtic tribes.

Paleozoic 2009

Re an earlier point, the people living in the uplands of what's now Wales have probably gone in for ambush and guerilla tactics since they were called the Ordovices and Silures, if not before.

Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure Carla 2009

The Silures took a lot longer to defeat - there was a 25-year guerrilla war including the defeat of a legion.'

Early Welsh warriors in red who once defeated the mighty Romans 2007