(anc. geog.), a town of the Trinobantes, the first Roman colony in Britain, of veterans, under the emperor. From the Itineraries it appears to have stood where now Malden stands. It continued to be an open place under the Romans; a place of pleasure rather than strength; yet not adorned with splendid works, as a theatre and a temple of Claudius: which the Britons considered as badges of slavery, and which gave rise to several seditions and commotions. It stands on a bay of the sea, at the mouth of the Chelmer, in the county of Essex; the modern name is curtailed from the ancient.