Resistance To Roman Rule Flashcards
The enemy had poured into…
Our allies’ territory […] because they thought that a new commander […] would not confront them.
Tacitus 12.31
The British troops,
Unprotected as they were by breastplates and helmets, were put to flight before them.
Tacitus 12.35 (on Caratacus’ final stand)
After this there were frequent battles […]
Brought on variously by chance or valour
Tacitus 12.39
According to Tacitus, Gallus…
‘Merely held what his predecessors had won”
14
But Gallus gained control of South Wales and most likely build the fortress at Usk; had it not been for other events he might have established Roman control there
The soldiers encouraged…
The lawlessness of the veterans […] to destroy the colony seemed no difficult task, as it had no defences
14.31
When the town [Colchester]…
Was surrounded by a horse of natives it was as if they had been caught unawares in a time of peace.
Tacitus 14.32
Shortly after Togodumnus perished […]
The Britons […] united all the more firmly to avenge his death.
Dio 21
He [Scapula] prepared…
To disarm the suspect […] the first to become restive were the Iceni, a powerful community not yet broke in battle
Tacitus 12.30-40
A certain Berikos […]
Persuaded Claudius to send a force there
Dio
The British disaster,
In which large numbers of Roman citizens and their allies were slaughtered and two leading towns sacked.
Suetonius 39.1
His [Prasutagus’] wife,
Boudicca, was whipped, and their daughters raped; all the leading Iceni were deprived of their ancestral property
Tacitus 14.31
The Trinobantes […] particularly…
Detested the veterans, because the new colonists at Camulodunum doing them had expelled them
Tacitus 14.31
Those chosen…
To serve as priests found the whole wealth drained away in the name of religion.
Tacitus 14.31
The confiscation..
Of this money was the pretext for war
[Catus calling in money]
Dio 62
Inferior in military strength[…]
He at once shifted the water stratagem into the territory of the Ordovices
Tacitus 12.33
