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If the enemy be rich, [the Romans] are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace.

Words spoken in AD 83 or 84 by the Caledonian chieftain Calgacus according to the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56 – c. 117)