23 The fourth summer he employed
in securing what he had overrun. Had the valour of our armies and the renown of
the Roman name permitted it, a limit to our conquests might have been found in Britain itself.
Clota and Bodotria, estuaries which the tides of two opposite seas carry far
back into the country, are separated by but a narrow strip of land. This
Agricola then began to defend with a line of forts, and, as all the country to
the south was now occupied, the enemy were pushed into what might be called
another island.
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