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The Agricola of Tacitus / edited by W.C. Flamsted Walters ; with illustrations Tacitus, Cornelius. London : Blackie & Son, 1899. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044085234334 Public Domain in the United States, Google-digitized http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd-us-google We have determined this work to be in the public domain in the United States of America. It may not be in the public domain in other countries. Copies are provided as a preservation service. Particularly outside of the United States, persons receiving copies should make appropriate efforts to determine the copyright status of the work in their country and use the work accordingly. It is possible that current copyright holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations or photographs, assert copyrights over these portions. Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address. 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Fellow of Trinity College and late Regius Professor oj Greek in the University of Dublin THE AGRICOLA OF TACITUS WALTERS Generated for DAMON, CYNTHIA (University of Pennsylvania) on 2015-08-18 05:09 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044085234334 Public Domain in the United States, Google-digitized / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd-us-google Generated for DAMON, CYNTHIA (University of Pennsylvania) on 2015-08-18 05:09 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044085234334 Public Domain in the United States, Google-digitized / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd-us-google v Generated for DAMON, CYNTHIA (University of Pennsylvania) on 2015-08-18 05:09 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044085234334 Public Domain in the United States, Google-digitized / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd-us-google Generated for DAMON, CYNTHIA (University of Pennsylvania) on 2015-08-18 05:09 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044085234334 Public Domain in the United States, Google-digitized / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd-us-google v (M6is) MAIDEN CASTLE, DORCHESTER A SITE OF (THE BRITISH FORTIFIED CAMP) THE Agricola of Tacitus . EDITED BY .U/ .. J J W. C. FLAMSTEAD WALTERS, M.A. FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD WITH ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON BLACKIE & SON, Limited, 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C. GLASGOW AND DUBLIN 1899 Generated for DAMON, CYNTHIA (University of Pennsylvania) on 2015-08-18 05:09 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044085234334 Public Domain in the United States, Google-digitized / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd-us-google /-KA3 / WAP 22 rvJl ^oJLiJtr-U; V Vy U\\({ " Generated for DAMON, CYNTHIA (University of Pennsylvania) on 2015-08-18 05:09 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044085234334 Public Domain in the United States, Google-digitized / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd-us-google PREFATORY NOTE The basis of the text used in this edition is that of Halm, but I have not been able to adhere always to his readings, and have in some instances returned to the MSS. or adopted other conjectures. All scholars will deplore the refusal of the Bishop of Toledo to allow a collation of the Toletan MS., as Mr. Furneaux informs us in the June number of the Classical Review of this year. For the revision of my own notes, and the final choice of readings, I have availed myself of the recent excellent edition of Mr. Furneaux, of Pro fessor Gudeman's notes in the Classical Review of October, 1897, and May, 1899, and of other English editions, such as those of Messrs. Davis and Frost. With regard to the illustrations, I considered it would be more instructive and more interesting to confine the choice to relics of the Roman occupa tion of Britain, and especially to select such as may be considered most pertinent to the life and work of Agricola in our island. W. C. F. W. University College of South Wales, Cardiff, October, 1899. *** The photographs are reproduced from originals by Messrs. Valentine & Son, Dundee. Generated for DAMON, CYNTHIA (University of Pennsylvania) on 2015-08-18 05:09 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044085234334 Public Domain in the United States, Google-digitized / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd-us-google Generated for DAMON, CYNTHIA (University of Pennsylvania) on 2015-08-18 05:09 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044085234334 Public Domain in the United States, Google-digitized / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd-us-google ^ CONTENTS Page Introduction — I. Life and Works of Tacitus 9 - - • - - II. Tacitus as a Historian 13 III. Summary of Agricola's Life ----- 15 IV. Summary of Romano-British History - - - 16 Agricola The Life of 19 Critical Appendix — A Note on Palaeography 60 ' ' ------ The Text of the Agricola 62 Chief Various Readings 63 Notes 69 Appendix — - I. Questions connected with the 'Agricola' 119 Appendix II. —On the purpose of the 'Agricola' - - 121 Hints on Translation 123 English-Latin Exercises 126 Vocabulary 135 Historical Index 169 Index of Noticeable Matters of Grammar and Style 173 Generated for DAMON, CYNTHIA (University of Pennsylvania) on 2015-08-18 05:09 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044085234334 Public Domain in the United States, Google-digitized / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd-us-google LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Page Site of a Roman Camp near Dorchester Frontis. Coin of Domitian 11 Roman Memorial Stone in Hexham Abbey - - 20 Bronze Helmet found at Ribchester, Lancashire 22 Pevensey Roman Gateway, 25 Leather Shoe found in London - - - - 28 Map - of Roman Britain 29 - . Roman Stones, Nether Hall, Maryport 32 Colchester Castle ....... 36 Bronze Helmet found at Guisborough, Yorkshire 39 Roman Bath 43 - - Plan of Silchester (the ancient Calleva) - 47 Bridge - - - - Roman near Bothwell 53 Bronze Vessel for libations, found at Prick- willow, Isle of Ely 57 Generated for DAMON, CYNTHIA (University of Pennsylvania) on 2015-08-18 05:09 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044085234334 Public Domain in the United States, Google-digitized / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd-us-google INTRODUCTION I. Life and Works of Tacitus. One day, in the course of conversation at the games of the Circus, a stranger asked Tacitus whether he was an Italian, " or provincial. You know me," answered the historian, "and in fact from my literary efforts." "Are you Tacitus or Pliny?" said the stranger. To us, as to their contemporaries, Tacitus and the younger Pliny are the most eminent and inseparable names in the literature of the period known as the 'Silver Age of Latin'. They have both won "that consideration from posterity" which Pliny says they at least " deserved for their efforts, hard work, and regard for after- ages". Pliny foresaw the immortality of his friend's historical work, and hoped to find a niche for himself in that 'Temple of Fame'; he would have said, in Steele's words: " Soon that will die which adds thy fame to mine; Let me then live joined to a work of thine ". But he has an immortality of his own. Accident has lost to us, and it is feared lost irretrievably, much of Tacitus' work, and with it the part that concerned Pliny, but has preserved to us the very letters, amongst them the letters describing the eruption of Vesuvius and the death of Pliny's famous uncle, the naturalist and historian, which were written at Tacitus' request for incorporation in his works. Moreover, Pliny in his letters supplies us with that very part which the historian neglects, and gives us an insight into the daily life, occupations, and interests of a noble and literary Roman ; so that from Pliny we get the counterpart to the picture of Generated for DAMON, CYNTHIA (University of Pennsylvania) on 2015-08-18 05:09 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044085234334 Public Domain in the United States, Google-digitized / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd-us-google IO AGRICOLA. the public life and events that Tacitus gives ; and the work of the one author completes the work of the other. Cornelius Tacitus belonged to an equestrian family, and was born between 50 and 55 a.d.