The (almost certainly invented by Tacitus) speech by Calgacus at the Battle of Mons Graupius is rather stirring e.g.: "Robbers of the world, having by their un

The (almost certainly invented by Tacitus) speech by Calgacus at the Battle of Mons Graupius is rather stirring e.g.: "Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. 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 make a solitude and call it peace" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgacus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgacus Although I am originally from Moray I now live in Fife and the hill behind our house is where Agricola's army is said to have camped on the way North after having crossed the Firth of Forth.