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Here at the world's end, on its last inch of liberty, we have lived unmolested to this day defended by our remoteness and obscurity. |
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But there are no other tribes to come, nothing but sea and cliffs. |
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And these more deadly Romans whose arrogance you cannot escape by obedience and self-restraint, to plunder, butcher, steal. |
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These things they misname empire, they make a desolation and they call it peace. |
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Of course, Calgacus never said any such thing. |
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This was a speech written long after the event by Tacitus and it's entirely Roman, not Scottish. |
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Yet this burning sentiment would echo down the generations. |
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Like Britannia itself, the idea of free Caledonia was from the first, a Roman invention. |
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There was one emperor, Spanish by birth, who understood that even the world's biggest empire needed to know its limits. |
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And he of course was destined, in Britain at any rate, to be remembered by a wall. |
