"And so it was fitting that, as soon as you stepped onto that shore, a long-desired avenger and liberator, a triumphal crowd poured forth to meet Your Majesty, and Britons exultant with joy came forward with their wives and children, venerating not you alone, whom they gazed at as one who had descended from heaven, but even the sails and oars of that ship which had conveyed your divinity, and prepared to feel your weight upon their prostrate bodies as you disembarked. Nor is it any wonder if they were carried away by such joy after so many years of miserable captivity; after the violation of their wives, after the shameful enslavement of their children, they were free at last, at last Romans, at last restored to life by the true light of empire."
Panegyrici Latini (VIII): Panegyric of Constantius
This panegyric, which was delivered in the presence of Constantius in AD 297, on the anniversary of his appointment as Caesar, congratulates him for the recovery of Britain the year before.
Struck about the same time at Trier, the Arras Medallion depicts on the reverse the personification of London kneeling before the city gate, which is approached by a Roman warship. Constantius is portrayed mounted on horseback in the guise of a triumphant emperor, holding a spear in one hand and a globe in the other, with the inscription "Restorer of Eternal Light." Part of a treasure hoard found in Arras, France in 1922, the medallion sold at auction in 1996 for $341,000.
Carausius is depicted on the left, Allectus on the right. Both wear the laurel crown of an emperor.
