Villages occurred at frequent intervals, and they passed through several large towns with temples, handsome villas, and other Roman erections similar to those that they had sacked at the capture of Camalodunum.
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty
They are simply wooden erections like a box, built in parts of the line where the snow is likely to drift.
"Faces and Places"
Henry William Lucy
They constituted him the founder of their colony, and pulled down the Hagnonic erections, and obliterated everything that could be interpreted as a memorial of his having founded the place; for they considered that Brasidas had been their preserver, and courting as they did the alliance of Lacedaemon for fear of Athens, in their present hostile relations with the latter they could no longer with the same advantage or satisfaction pay Hagnon his honours.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides