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" We know most of its harbours and approaches, and that through the intercourse of commerce. One of the petty kings of the nation, driven out by internal faction, had been received by Agricola, who detained him under the semblance of friendship till he... "
England Before the Norman Conquest - Page 42
by Raymond Wilson Chambers - 1926 - 334 pages
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The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus. Tr. by A.J. Church and W.J. Brodribb

Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1868 - 180 pages
...Britain. We know most of its harbours and approaches, and that through the intercourse of commerce. One of the petty kings of the nation, driven out by...freedom, so to speak, to be banished from its sight. AD 83. ^ET. 44. He advances north, and is confronted by a general union of the Caledonian tribes. .]...
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The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus: And the Dialogue on Oratory

Cornelius Tacitus - 1877 - 276 pages
...through the intercourse of commerce. One of the petty kings of the nation, driven CHAP. XXIV. THE LIFE OF out by internal faction, had been received by Agricola,...freedom, so to speak, to be banished from its sight. CHAP. xxv. AD 83. jET. 44. He advances north, and is confronted by a general union of the Caledonian...
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The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus: And the Dialogue on Oratory

Cornelius Tacitus - 1877 - 234 pages
...("HAP. xxiv. , ... 24 THE LIFE OF CHAP, out by internal faction, had been received by Agricola, xxiv who detained him under the semblance of friendship...freedom, so to speak, to be banished from its sight. AD 83. jET. 44. He advances north, and is confronted by a general union of tlie Caledonian tribes....
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The Archaeological Journal, Volume 44

1887 - 526 pages
...had been sent over, are found in Ireland. The words of Tacitus, that he " had often heard Agricola say that a single legion with a few auxiliaries could conquer and occupy Ireland," is inferentially a direct negative to the idea of invasion. Dr. Pfitzner thinks that the Leyio Secunda...
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Tacitus Dialogus, Agricola, and Germania

Cornelius Tacitus - 1908 - 166 pages
...dissension, Agricola had welcomed him under a show of friendship, and now preserved him for future use. I have often heard him say that a single legion with a moderate V force of irregulars could conquer and hold Ireland. Such a conquest would be, he considered,...
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The Historians of Ancient Rome

Ronald Mellor - 1998 - 548 pages
...Britain. We know most of its harbors and approaches, and that through the intercourse of commerce. One of the petty kings of the nation, driven out by...from its sight. 25. In the summer in which he entered on the sixth year of his office, his operations embraced the states beyond Bodotria, and, as he dreaded...
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