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[ from The Annals of Tacitus (AD 110-120), Book XIV].
Chapter 29. [Military ladder in Wales.]
During the consulship of Lucius Caesennius Paetus and Publius Petronius Turpilianus [AD 60-61], a dreadful calamity befell the army in Britain. Aulus Didius, as has been mentioned, aimed at no extension of territory, content with maintaining the conquests already made. Veranius, who succeeded him, did little more: he made a a couple of(prenominal) incursions into the country of the Silures, and was hindered by death from prosecuting the war with vigour. He had been respected, during his life, for the inclemency of his manners; in his end, the mark fell off, and his last go away discovered the low ambition of a servile flatterer, who, in those moments, could offer incense to Nero, and add, with vain ostentation, that if he lived two years, it was his material body to make the whole island obedient to the authority of the prince.
Paulinus Suetonius succeeded to the command; an ships officer of distinguished merit. To be compared with Corbulo was his ambition.
His military talents gave him pretensions, and the voice of the people, who never kick the bucket exalted merit without a rival, raised him to the highest eminence. By subduing the mutinous spirit of the Britons he hoped to equal the brilliant success of Corbulo in Armenia. With this view, he resolved to subdue the isle of Mona; a view in habited by a warlike people, and a common refuge for all the discontented Britons. In line of battle to facilitate his approach to a difficult and deceitful shore, he ordinateed a number of flat-bottomed boats to be constructed. In these he wafted over the infantry, while the cavalry, partly by get across over the shallows, and partly by swimming their horses, advanced to crystalize a footing on the island.
Chapter 30. [The Druids at Mona Island]
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