Speech of Calgacus, reported by Tacitus, Agricola, 30
• William Peterson, ed. The Dialogues of Tacitus, LCL 35 (1914), p. 221
• William Peterson, ed. The Dialogues of Tacitus, LCL 35 (1914), p. 221
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Here at the world's end, on its last inch of liberty, we have lived unmolested to this day, in this sequestered nook of story; for the unknown is ever magnified. But to-day the uttermost parts of Britain are laid bare; there are no other tribes to come; nothing but sea and cliffs and these more deadly Romans.
— Celtic Britons
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Here at the world's end, on its last inch of liberty, we have lived unmolested to this day, in this sequestered nook of story; for the unknown is ever magnified. But to-day the uttermost parts of Britain are laid bare; there are no other tribes to come; nothing but sea and cliffs and these more deadly Romans." in the context of "Speech of Calgacus, reported by Tacitus, Agricola, 30
• William Peterson, ed. The Dialogues of Tacitus, LCL 35 (1914), p. 221" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Celtic Britons
The Britons (Reconstructed Brittonic: Pritanī, Latin: Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others). They spoke Common Brittonic, the ancestor of the modern Brittonic languages.
About Celtic Britons
The Britons (Reconstructed Brittonic: Pritanī, Latin: Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others). They spoke Common Brittonic, the ancestor of the modern Brittonic languages.
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