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1502 33| or the same abundance of supplies, but we have arms in our
1503 22| protracted siege by a year’s supply. So winter brought with
1504 15| and profligacy. They will surely fly, as did the now deified
1505 12| extremities of the earth’s surface does not raise the darkness
1506 17| warlike tribe of the Silures, surmounting the difficulties of the
1507 11| qualities. But a general survey inclines me to believe that
1508 40| having seen and attentively surveyed him, asked the secret of
1509 46| we admired in Agricola, survives, and will survive in the
1510 28| for two of the three they suspected and consequently put to
1511 39| best for the present to suspend his hatred until the freshness
1512 31| they give safety, provoke suspicion. Since then you cannot hope
1513 28| embarked on board three swift galleys with pilots pressed
1514 18| that national experience in swimming which enables the Britons
1515 9 | and apt to appeal to the sword, finds no exercise for the
1516 43| at once forget it. Men’s sympathy was increased by a prevalent
1517 36| fighting with swords. Such tactics were familiar to these veteran
1518 41| of other generals. This talk, it is quite certain, assailed
1519 43| inquired at his house, and talked of him in public places
1520 10| from its furthest shores, tapering off in a wedge-like form.
1521 38| newly-conquered tribes by the very tardiness of his progress, brought
1522 19| feelings of his province, and taught also, by the experience
1523 32| their courage; no parents to taunt them with flight, man have
1524 22| being carried as far as the Taus, an estuary so called. This
1525 13| cheerfully the conscription, the taxes, and the other burdens imposed
1526 2 | same time they banished the teachers of philosophy, and exiled
1527 6 | draw up an account of the temple offerings, and his searching
1528 21| public aid to the building of temples, courts of justice and dwelling-houses,
1529 5 | selected him to share his tent. Without the recklessness
1530 36| destitute of guidance, and terrified horses without drivers,
1531 41| and the possession of our territories. And so when disaster followed
1532 5 | judicious officer, who, to test his merits, selected him
1533 3 | servitude, and borne our testimony to present happiness. Meanwhile
1534 42| allowed himself to be formally thanked, nor blushed to grant so
1535 33| is the eighth year since, thanks to the greatness and good
1536 10| ability may be compared with theirs, but because the country
1537 37| cavalry where it was not so thick, to scour the woods like
1538 34| penetrates the forest and the thicket, all the most courageous
1539 19| 19 Next, with thorough insight into the feelings
1540 10| then for the first time thoroughly subdued. And so matters,
1541 9 | required it, he was dignified, thoughtful, austere, and yet often
1542 39| with the destruction of thousands of the enemy, was being
1543 2 | Arulenus Rusticus on Paetus Thrasea, and by Herennius Senecio
1544 42| brought him by entreaties and threats to Domitian. The Emperor,
1545 1 | appreciated by the age in which it thrives most easily. But in these
1546 40| the concourse of welcoming throngs, he avoided the attentions
1547 42| his excuses; and at last, throwing off all disguise, brought
1548 10| islands hitherto unknown. Thule too was descried in the
1549 13| Augustus spoke of as policy, Tiberius as an inherited maxim. That
1550 6 | for his province, Salvius Titianus for his proconsul. Neither
1551 21| style of dress, and the “toga” became fashionable. Step
1552 8 | at first indeed only the toils and dangers, but before
1553 3 | not regret that we have told, though in language unskilful
1554 21| who lately disdained the tongue of Rome now coveted its
1555 37| conquered now and then felt a touch of fury and of courage.
1556 | toward
1557 32| and oppressive rulers, the towns are ill-affected and rife
1558 11| religious belief may be traced in the strongly-marked British
1559 10| however, a large and irregular tract of land which juts out from
1560 28| as slaves in the way of trade and were brought through
1561 39| had been purchased from traders people whose dress and hair
1562 46| posterity by history and tradition, will live for ever.~
1563 42| their purpose by praises of tranquillity and leisure; then offered
1564 19| as ruling a province. He transacted no public business through
1565 19| power to men who would not transgress, rather than have to condemn
1566 19| rather than have to condemn a transgressor. He lightened the exaction
1567 46| honour thee not so much with transitory praises as with our reverence,
1568 13| having indicated rather than transmitted the acquisition to future
1569 28| been levied in Germany and transported into Britain, ventured on
1570 33| so great a march, to have traversed forests and to have crossed
1571 29| union, had, by embassies and treaties, summoned forth the whole
1572 8 | of war, often by way of trial putting him in command of
1573 5 | never availed himself of his tribune’s rank or his inexperience
1574 29| whose fidelity had been tried through years of peace,
1575 19| always act on his knowledge. Trifling errors he treated with leniency,
1576 2 | objects of rage, and that the triumvirs were commissioned to burn
1577 37| cohorts, with some dismounted troopers for the denser parts of
1578 16| penitence, he put an end to old troubles, and, attempting nothing
1579 39| of a good general was a truly imperial quality. Harassed
1580 19| man whom he thought most trustworthy. He knew everything, but
1581 12| crosses the heavens. The truth is, that the low shadow
1582 38| renown entered the harbour of Trutulium, to which it had returned
1583 7 | acting disloyally. It was a trying and formidable charge for
1584 36| encouraged three Batavian and two Tungrian cohorts to bring matters
1585 8 | more mildly than suited so turbulent a province. Agricola moderated
1586 16| wrongs. Accordingly Petronius Turpilianus was sent out to initiate
1587 16| head-quarters, as they thought, of tyranny. In their rage and their
1588 3 | in language unskilful and unadorned, the story of past servitude,
1589 37| pursuers, while some, who were unarmed, actually rushed to the
1590 38| of the flying enemy was uncertain, and that there was no attempt
1591 31| Let us, then, a fresh and unconquered people, never likely to
1592 38| roused their fury. It was an undoubted fact that some of them vented
1593 18| horses, he delivered so unexpected an attack that the astonished
1594 27| boastful. It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that
1595 32| and forests which are all unfamiliar to them; hemmed in, as it
1596 32| to dread. The forts are ungarrisoned; the colonies in the hands
1597 38| wounded, calling to the unhurt, deserting their homes,
1598 17| Vespasian had restored to unity Britain as well as the rest
1599 30| the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land,
1600 19| granary and of purchasing corn unnecessarily and raising it to a fictitious
1601 30| could keep even our eyes unpolluted by the contagion of slavery.
1602 16| to the enemy, and similar unruliness in the camp, only Bolanus,
1603 3 | told, though in language unskilful and unadorned, the story
1604 34| If unknown nations and an untried enemy confronted you, I
1605 5 | warlike renown, a sentiment unwelcome to an age which put a sinister
1606 36| with small bucklers and unwieldy weapons. The swords of the
1607 36| behind half dead, some even unwounded, in the hurry of victory.
1608 16| the camp, only Bolanus, an upright man, whom no misdeeds made
1609 9 | his friends. To speak of uprightness and purity in such a man
1610 34| confronted you, I should urge you on by the example of
1611 36| drivers, dashed as panic urged them, sideways, or in direct
1612 42| perilous career, utterly useless to the state, and closed
1613 28| 28 The same summer a Usipian cohort, which had been levied
1614 32| them, as but lately did the Usipii. Behind them there is nothing
1615 26| routed. Both armies did their utmost; the one for the honour
1616 45| received some precepts, some utterances to fix in our inmost hearts.
1617 42| only by a perilous career, utterly useless to the state, and
1618 30| To us who dwell on the uttermost confines of the earth and
1619 40| province of Syria, then vacant by the death of Atilius
1620 29| various points might cause a vague and wide-spread alarm, he
1621 30| whose oppression escape is vainly sought by obedience and
1622 33| everything is adverse to the vanquished. For as it is a great and
1623 30| contests, in which, with varying fortune, the Romans were
1624 35| camp; his victory would be vastly more glorious if won without
1625 38| undoubted fact that some of them vented their rage on their wives
1626 14| Didius was succeeded by Veranius, who died within the year.
1627 3 | the old almost to the very verge and end of existence! Yet
1628 28| around Britain and lost their vessels from not knowing how to
1629 21| things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the
1630 16| to excuse many attractive vices, and the occurrence of the
1631 18| Britain, and such were the vicissitudes of the war, which Agricola
1632 3 | casualties, and the ablest fell victim to the Emperor’s rage, if
1633 28| of their number, and then victims selected by lot. Having
1634 5 | would be at once careful and vigilant. Never indeed had Britain
1635 12| exception of the olive and vine, and plants which usually
1636 31| even though they may escape violation from the enemy, are dishonoured
1637 15| slaves of the other, combine violence with insult. Nothing is
1638 22| harassed though it was by violent storms; and there was even
1639 43| with a court which pays its visits by means of messengers.
1640 38| wandering amidst the mingled wailings of men and women, were dragging
1641 19| compelled to endure the farce of waiting by the closed granary and
1642 46| the ages, in the fame that waits on noble deeds. Over many
1643 45| were not heard beyond the walls of Alba, and Massa Baebius
1644 38| Meanwhile the Britons, wandering amidst the mingled wailings
1645 9 | the genius of the soldier wants subtlety, because military
1646 12| states meet together to ward off a common danger. Thus,
1647 12| plants which usually grow in warmer climates, the soil will
1648 42| having been asked, or was warned by his conscience that he
1649 42| Agricola did not want a warning, or Domitian a precedent.
1650 33| of arms, as the boldest warriors stepped to the front. As
1651 20| the enemy no rest, laying waste his territory with sudden
1652 18| precedent, and anxiously watched the temper of the new governor.
1653 28| dispersing in search of water and provisions, they encountered
1654 10| the snows of winter. Those waters, they say, are sluggish,
1655 9 | his good nature did not weaken his authority, nor his strictness
1656 26| ninth Legion, as being the weakest, and cutting down the sentries,
1657 9 | even good men are often weakly fond, he did not seek by
1658 45| failing health, to comfort thy weakness, to satisfy ourselves with
1659 36| small bucklers and unwieldy weapons. The swords of the Britons
1660 37| pathless wilds. Night and weariness of bloodshed put an end
1661 33| mountains, and rivers were wearing out your strength, did I
1662 10| shores, tapering off in a wedge-like form. Round these coasts
1663 46| virtues, for which we must not weep nor beat the breast. Let
1664 40| conspicuous by the concourse of welcoming throngs, he avoided the
1665 37| the general’s order had wheeled round from the van of the
1666 | whereas
1667 | why
1668 29| might cause a vague and wide-spread alarm, he advanced with
1669 35| front and on the flanks, widened his ranks, and though his
1670 10| that nowhere has the sea a wider dominion, that it has many
1671 37| of distant and pathless wilds. Night and weariness of
1672 31| 31 “Nature has willed that every man’s children
1673 44| believe him a good man, and willingly believe him to be great.
1674 10| are not even raised by the wind as other seas. The reason,
1675 10| shore, but penetrates and winds far inland, and finds a
1676 35| cavalry were posted on his wings. The legions were drawn
1677 19| them, so that states with a winter-camp close to them had to carry
1678 41| were imperilled, but the winter-quarters of our legions and the possession
1679 6 | when indolence stood for wisdom. His praetorship was passed
1680 46| of the just; if, as the wise believe, noble souls do
1681 44| his age. Should posterity wish to know something of his
1682 22| found in him an impartial witness of their every action. Some
1683 38| mingled wailings of men and women, were dragging off their
1684 39| Domitian heard, as was his wont, with joy in his face but
1685 40| hurried embrace and without a word being spoken, he mingled
1686 9 | business was done with, he wore no longer the official character.
1687 31| mines, nor harbours, for the working of which we may be spared.
1688 31| the midst of insult, are worn down by the toil of clearing
1689 1 | Many too thought that to write their own lives showed the
1690 6 | and an easy prey to the wrongdoer, while the proconsul, a
1691 46| the likenesses which are wrought in marble or in bronze;
1692 | yours
1693 37| commander of the cohort, whose youthful impetuosity and mettlesome
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