In the canon
The Agricola
Tacitus
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 98 CE
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 100
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant: they make a desert and call it peace. Tacitus gives that verdict on Rome to a Caledonian chieftain on a hillside in the far north, speaking to men about to be cut down by the legions of Tacitus's own father-in-law, and then he writes the battle anyway.
To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
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