Monday, September 02, 2019

 

No Longer Safe

Tacitus, Agricola 30.3 (from Calgacus' speech to his troops; tr. Herbert W. Benario):
Since we are the most distant people of the earth and of liberty, our very isolation and the obscurity of our renown have protected us up to this day; now the farthest boundary of Britain lies open...

nos terrarum ac libertatis extremos recessus ipse ac sinus famae in hunc diem defendit; nunc terminus Britanniae patet...



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