Nor were they, then. They were too busy making wildernesses and calling them "peace".
Mind you, in the Chronicles of Scotland (Translation of Boece's Latin into metrical Scots by the Makar, William Stewart) Agricola is referred to as "The good Julius".
I treated myself to a battered three-volume copy of that work when I was minded to defend Tacitus against the dismissive scholarship of Barry Cunliffe and was hoping to propose Dunsinane Hill as the possible location of Mons Graupius, resulting in the (supposed - or rather, proposed by me) folk memory that becomes the MacGuffin in Macbeth (Macobey in the Chronicles).
I also had a whim to present A's eventual withdrawal and redeployment to Germany (at least T got the location of that roughly right) as the first Tay Bridge Disaster. He built it on his way up and demolished it on his way down...
(...shut up, Annie)
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Last edited by Ann Drysdale; 04-05-2018 at 01:22 AM.
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