“ Holmes argues that, allowing for change in the foreshore since Caesar’s time, 800 specially built ships could have been hauled above the highest spring-tide level, and afterwards launched simultaneously at Wissant, which would therefore have been “commodissimus” (v. 2) or opposed to “brevissimus traiectus” (iv. 21) .
See T. R. Holmes in Classical Review (May 1909) , in which he partially revises the conclusions at which he arrived in his Ancient Britain (1907) , pp. 552-594; that the first expedition started from Boulogne is accepted, e.g. ”