the capital of the Trinobantes, the first Roman colony in Britain. From the Itineraries it appears to have stood where Malden now stands; but according to some it occupied the site of the modern Colchester. It continued to be an open town under the Romans, a place of pleasure rather than strength. It was adorned with a Roman theatre and a temple, the building of which the Britons considered as badges of slavery, and resented by several seditions and commotions.