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Magazine Article
Ancient & modern
2005
Overview
These days the ability to understand and explain in public prints the aims of the people perceived as public enemies is likely to get you deported. So one wonders what our government would have made of that pillar of the Roman establishment Tacitus -- consul, provincial governor and historian -- who invented an extraordinarily sympathetic speech to put in the mouth of Calgacus, the Caledonian 'terrorist' who fought Agricola's army somewhere in the mountains of Aberdeenshire in AD 83.
Publisher
The Spectator Limited
