HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Quadrans, Calgacus, Aeneid
1 Dec 2016
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If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they create desolation and call it peace. Speech of calgacus, prior to battle of mons graupius, 83 ad (tacitus, agricola 30: roman empire more benevolent, calgacus believed that they would rise above their roman suppressors, but it never happened. In aeneid 6 anchises articulates the roman imperial mission, ideology of pax romana (fagles, page 210) Others i have no doubt, will forge the bronze to breathe the supplier lines but you, Roman, remember, rule with all your power the peoples of the earth these will be your arts to put your stamp on the works and ways of peace, to spare the defeated, break the proud in war.
