1Roused by these and similar words to one another, under the leadership of Boudicca, a woman of royal family (for they make no distinction of sex in commands), they all took up war; 1and hunting down the soldiers scattered among the forts, they stormed the garrisons and attacked the colony itself as the seat of servitude, and anger and victory left out no kind of cruelty known to barbarians. 2And had not Paulinus, on learning of the uprising in the province, come quickly to the rescue, Britain would have been lost; 2but the fortune of a single battle restored it to its old submission, though many kept their arms, troubled by the consciousness of their revolt and by a more personal fear of the governor, lest, excellent as he was in other respects, he should deal arrogantly with those who surrendered and too harshly, as one who avenged every wrong as done to himself.
3Petronius Turpilianus was therefore sent as being more open to entreaty and, as a newcomer to the enemy's offences, more lenient to their repentance; having settled the earlier troubles and ventured nothing further, he handed the province over to Trebellius Maximus. 4Trebellius, rather slack and without any experience of camps, held the province by a certain affability in governing it. 4Now the barbarians too had learned to pardon seductive vices, and the intervention of civil war provided a fair excuse for inactivity: but there was serious trouble from discord, since the soldiers, used to campaigns, ran riot in idleness. 5Trebellius, having escaped the army's anger by flight and hiding, disgraced and humbled, soon held command on sufferance, and, as if by a bargain, the army kept its licence, the general his life, and the mutiny halted without bloodshed.
6Nor did Vettius Bolanus, while the civil wars still continued, trouble Britain with discipline: there was the same inactivity towards the enemy, the same unruliness in the camp, except that Bolanus, blameless and hated for no crimes, had won affection in place of authority.