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He defeated the natives under Galgacus, their leader, in a decisive battle; and fixing a line of garrisons between the friths of Clyde and Forth, he secured the Roman province from the incursions of the people who occupied the parts of the island beyond that boundary.
He defeated them in a decisive action which they fought under Galgacus; and having fixed a chain of garrisons between the friths of Clyde and Forth, he cut off the ruder and more barren parts of the island and secured the Roman province from the incursions of the more barbarous inhabitants. During these military enterprises, he neglected not the arts of peace.
Young men of Boston, burnish your armor prepare for the conflict; and I say to you, in the language of Galgacus to the ancient Britons, 'Think of your forefathers! think of your posterity!" Niles' National Register, Second Series, vol. XVII., pp. 105-111. On the 30th of the same month Mr.
And now Galgacus, he who amongst their several leaders surpassed all in valour and descent, is said to have spoke in this strain to the multitude all very pressing for battle, "Whenever I contemplate the causes of the war, and the necessity to which we are reduced, great is my confidence that this day and this union of yours will prove the beginning of universal liberty to Britain.
You shall invoke the Muse and certainly she ought to be propitious to an author who, in an apostatizing age, adheres with the faith of Abdiel to the ancient form of adoration. Then we must have a vision in which the Genius of Caledonia shall appear to Galgacus, and show him a procession of the real Scottish monarchs: and in the notes I will have a hit at Boethius No; I must not touch that topic, now that Sir Arthur is likely to have vexation enough besides but I'll annihilate Ossian, Macpherson, and Mac-Cribb."
So many years, it might be said to be in round numbers, though actually somewhat less than fifty years, since the dominion of Rome was first established in Britain under the Emperor Claudius. Cf. 13, supra. The speech of A. is not equal to that of Galgacus. He had not so good a cause. He could not appeal to the sacred principles of justice and liberty, to the love of home and household gods.
You shall invoke the Muse and certainly she ought to be propitious to an author who, in an apostatizing age, adheres with the faith of Abdiel to the ancient form of adoration. Then we must have a vision in which the Genius of Caledonia shall appear to Galgacus, and show him a procession of the real Scottish monarchs: and in the notes I will have a hit at Boethius No; I must not touch that topic, now that Sir Arthur is likely to have vexation enough besides but I'll annihilate Ossian, Macpherson, and Mac-Cribb."
For though in the following year he carried his arms further, and, as it is thought, to the foot of the Grampian Mountains, and there defeated a confederate army of the Caledonians, headed by Galgacus, one of their most famous chiefs, yet he built no fort to the northward of this line: a measure which he never omitted, when he intended to preserve his conquests.
The speech of Galgacus before the Briton army, when driven into the extremity of Caledonia by the Romans under Agricola, can hardly be surpassed for patriotic sentiments, vigorous reasoning, and burning invective.
From the way in which he wrote harangues that of Galgacus in his Agricola, for instance, he would have caught in his alembic the essence of the original, and sublimated it; but he would not have placed before us an offspring that does not reflect one feature of its parent.
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