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Tacitus · Agricola (AD 98) · trans. Birley, OWC
Tacitus' Agricola
Roman Britain at the edge of the world (AD 77–84) — Agricola's conquest, the geography and peoples, Calgacus's defiance, and Domitian's jealousy. Our frame for Demetrius.
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Demetrius is attached to Agricola's staff for natural studies of Britain (tides, the Ocean, the islands, the peoples) — the very enquiries Tacitus leaves "to many writers" — while secretly serving as Domitian's informer. He watches a good man undone by the paranoid centre he serves.
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