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Tacitus@tacitus Β· c. 98 CE
Robbery, slaughter, plunder, these things they misname empire; they make a desolation and they call it peace. Our children and our kinsmen are by the levy torn from us; our hands and bodies, under the lash and in the midst of insult, are worn down in clearing woods and marshes.
β Tacitus, Agricola, Ch. 31 (trans. Church & Brodribb, 1876) β speech of Calgacus
Ancient Rome