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Updated: June 16, 2025
If they once turn so much to the arts of peace as to forget the virtues of war, their empire will fall to pieces more rapidly than it has been built up." Boduoc shook his head, "These things are well enough for you, Beric, who have lived among the Romans and learned many of their ways.
They urgently prayed that we would send our boats down for the women and children, and I promised them that you would do so, and would also send down some provisions for the fighting men." The next morning the twenty large boats, each carrying thirty men and a supply of meat and grain, started up the river, Beric himself going with them, and taking Boduoc as his lieutenant.
"You know how great the difficulties will be, Boduoc; we want one great leader whom all the tribes will follow, just as all the Roman legions obey one general; and what chance is there of such a man arising a man so great, so wise, so brave, that all the tribes of Britain will lay aside their enmities and jealousies, and submit themselves to his absolute guidance?"
If they will not give me a weapon with which to put an end to my life, I will starve myself." There was an exclamation of fierce assent from the other captives. "They have not meant to dishonour us, Boduoc, but to do us honour," Beric said. "The Romans do not view these things in the same light that we do.
They were drawn back, and one of the court attendants said, "Caesar requires the attendance of Beric the Briton in the banqueting hall." "I will tell him," Boduoc said. "He will come directly." Beric was sitting reading when Boduoc entered and gave the message. "This means mischief, Boduoc," he said. "I have never been sent for before to one of these foul carousals. Philo, come hither!"
"We will place four sentries," Beric said, "there may well be wolves or other wild beasts in these swamps." After supper was over Boduoc questioned Beric privately as to the monsters of which their boatman had spoken. "It is folly," Beric said.
I would not say as much for those who are training hard, for the loss of a night's rest is serious; but as it will be some months before you Britons are ready for the arena, it will do you no harm." Beric went below, aroused his countrymen, and went with them and Boduoc. The streets were alive.
They were not far from the school now, and a few minutes' run took them there. The house was quiet, but a few oil lamps burning here and there enabled them to make their way to the broad planks, arranged like a modern guard bed, on which they slept with their three comrades. "Is that you, Beric?" Scopus, who slept in a cubicule leading off the great room, asked. "Yes it is; Boduoc and I."
Two days later, news reached them of the spot where Suetonius had taken up his position and was awaiting their attack, and the army at once pressed forward in that direction. At nightfall they bivouacked two miles away from it, and Beric, taking Boduoc with him, went forward to examine it.
These he would himself command. A force of four hundred men, led by Boduoc, were to travel by different paths through the swamp; they were then to unite and to march round the Roman camp, and attack it suddenly on three sides at once. The camp was in the form of a horseshoe, and its ends resting on the river, and it was here that the boats were being built.
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