. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. amulodunum, Verulamium, and Londinium weretaken and sacked and there was an immense slaughter ofRoman civilians and Romanised Britons. But vengeancefollowed: no barbarians could stand against the strategy anddiscipline of the legions. Succeeding governors were mainly content to pacify andcivilise the island. One of the extraordinarily pungent chapters of Tacitusshows us the Roman method of empire-building in Britain,The following winter, he says of 79, was .spent inuseful statecraft. To make a people which was scat
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. amulodunum, Verulamium, and Londinium weretaken and sacked and there was an immense slaughter ofRoman civilians and Romanised Britons. But vengeancefollowed: no barbarians could stand against the strategy anddiscipline of the legions. Succeeding governors were mainly content to pacify andcivilise the island. One of the extraordinarily pungent chapters of Tacitusshows us the Roman method of empire-building in Britain,The following winter, he says of 79, was .spent inuseful statecraft. To make a people which was scattered andbarbarous, and therefore prone to warfare, grow accustomedto peace and quietness by way of their pleasures, Agricolaused to persuade them by private exhortations and publicassistance to build temples, forums, and houses, with praisefor the eager and admonitions for the laggard. Thusthey could not help embarking on the rivalry for he began to instruct the sons of chieftains in the liberalarts, to extol the natural abilities of the Britons above the260. THE GROWTH OF THE EMPIRE studious habits of Gaul, so that those who lately rejected eventhe Roman language now became zealous for oratory. Soeven our dress came into esteem, and the toga was commonlyworn. The next step was towards the attractions of our vices,lounging in colonnades, baths, and refined dinner-parties. Theywere too ignorant to see that what they call civilisation wasreally a form of slavery. There is no doubt that the Britonstook as readily as their Gallic cousins to the Roman of them took Roman names and became Roman learnt the pleasures of the bath and the amphitheatre,their mines were exploited, arts and industries were introduced,agriculture was improved. The Druids hid themselves awayin the unconquered fastnesses of Wales or crossed over to theHibernian island which the Romans never had leisure toconquer. Meanwhile the Britons were learning to worship theobsol
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