Eboracum Eboracum Eboracum (Latin /ebo'rakum/, English or ) was a fort and city in the Roman province of Britannia. In its prime it was the largest town in northern Britain and a provincial capital. The site remained occupied after the decline of the Roman Empire and ultimately evolved into the present-day city York, occupying the same site in North Yorkshire, England. Two Roman emperors died in Eboracum: Septimius Severus in 211 AD, and Constantius Chlorus in 306 AD. The first known recorded mention of Eboracum by name is dated and is an address containing the genitive form of the settlement's name,
Dog Latin Labour's Lost", includes a reference to dog Latin: Thomas Jefferson mentioned dog Latin by name in 1815: A once-common schoolboy doggerel which, though very poor Latin, would have done a tolerable job of reinforcing the rhythms of Latin hexameters: Insofar as this specimen can be translated, it is as follows: The meter uses Latin vowel quantities for the Latin parts, and to some extent follows English stress in the English parts. Another variant has similar lines in a different order, with the following variants: The meaning here is "The storm rose up and overturned the boat" and "Except for John