| [00:02.472] | Here at the world's end, on its last inch of liberty, we have lived unmolested to this day defended by our remoteness and obscurity. |
| [00:16.207] | But there are no other tribes to come, nothing but sea and cliffs. |
| [00:22.602] | And these more deadly Romans whose arrogance you cannot escape by obedience and self-restraint, to plunder, butcher, steal. |
| [00:33.240] | These things they misname empire, they make a desolation and they call it peace. |
| [00:48.613] | Of course, Calgacus never said any such thing. |
| [00:51.711] | This was a speech written long after the event by Tacitus and it's entirely Roman, not Scottish. |
| [00:58.576] | Yet this burning sentiment would echo down the generations. |
| [01:02.638] | Like Britannia itself, the idea of free Caledonia was from the first, a Roman invention. |
| [01:11.613] | There was one emperor, Spanish by birth, who understood that even the world's biggest empire needed to know its limits. |
| [01:18.770] | And he of course was destined, in Britain at any rate, to be remembered by a wall. |
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