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Agricola (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
They received his speech with enthusiasm, and as is
usual among barbarians, with songs, shouts and discordant cries. And now was
seen the assembling of troops and the gleam of arms, as the boldest warriors
stepped to the front. As the line was forming, Agricola, who, though his
troops
AGRICOLA'S SPEECH
were in high
spirits and could scarcely be kept within the entrenchments, still thought
it right to encourage them, spoke as follows—
"Comrades, this is
the eighth year since, thanks to the greatness and good fortune of Rome and to your own loyalty and energy, you conquered
Britain. In our many campaigns and battles, whether
courage in meeting the foe, or toil and endurance in struggling, I may say,
against nature herself, have been needed, I have ever been well satisfied
with my soldiers, and you with your commander. And so you and I have passed
beyond the limits reached by former armies or by former governors, and we
now occupy the last confines of Britain, not merely
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