The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Volum 1W. Blackwood, 1867 - 650 sider |
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... Caledonians , as Tacitus calls them ; -his is the earliest known use of the name , and he applies it to the dwellers in the land north of the Bodotria or Forth . It was said that they were organising a great confederacy to drive out the ...
... Caledonians , as Tacitus calls them ; -his is the earliest known use of the name , and he applies it to the dwellers in the land north of the Bodotria or Forth . It was said that they were organising a great confederacy to drive out the ...
Side 6
... Caledonians feel the weight of the Roman arms in their own strongholds . While he marched northwards , apparently by the east coast , the fleet of transports attended , crossing the firth and creeping along the coast . This gave the ...
... Caledonians feel the weight of the Roman arms in their own strongholds . While he marched northwards , apparently by the east coast , the fleet of transports attended , crossing the firth and creeping along the coast . This gave the ...
Side 8
... Caledonians held their own ; but Agricola directed three Batavian and two Tungrian cohorts to charge them with the ... Caledonian chariots , it would appear , routed the Roman cavalry ; but when they dashed at the infantry , the vehicles ...
... Caledonians held their own ; but Agricola directed three Batavian and two Tungrian cohorts to charge them with the ... Caledonian chariots , it would appear , routed the Roman cavalry ; but when they dashed at the infantry , the vehicles ...
Side 9
... Caledonians , but to create a sensation at home , where his parent's fame and merits were over- shadowed by the gloomy jealousy of Domitian . He had to paint up to such a purpose , and make his hero victorious in the stricken field in ...
... Caledonians , but to create a sensation at home , where his parent's fame and merits were over- shadowed by the gloomy jealousy of Domitian . He had to paint up to such a purpose , and make his hero victorious in the stricken field in ...
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... Caledonia by the Emperor Severus , in the beginning of the third century . We have first a description of the country and the people . Two tribes are of chief mark among the Britons , the Mæatians and the Caledonians ; if there have ...
... Caledonia by the Emperor Severus , in the beginning of the third century . We have first a description of the country and the people . Two tribes are of chief mark among the Britons , the Mæatians and the Caledonians ; if there have ...
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Side 11 - Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, et. mare scrutantur : si locuples hostis est, avari ; si pauper, ambitiosi : quos non Oriens, non Occidens, satiaverit. Soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari affectu concupiscunt. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium ; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.