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There are a few MAXIMS of various times, but all seemingly drawn from custom cited or implied by Saxo as authoritative: "It is disgraceful to be ruled by a woman." The great men of Teutonic nations held to this maxim. There is no Boudicea or Maidhbh in our own annals till after the accession of the Tudors, when Great Eliza rivals her elder kins-women's glories.
Observe the subj. in the subordinate clauses of the oratio obliqua throughout this chapter. Neve pavescerant. This verb would have been an imperative in the oratio recta, Z. 603, c. Neve is appropriate either to the imp. or the subj. XVI. Instincti, i.e. furore quodam afflati. Dr. For a fuller account of this revolt, see Ann. 14, 31-38; Dio. 62, 1-13. Boudicea.
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