Agr. 16.1Hīs atque tālibus in vicem īnstīnctī, Boudiccā generis rēgiī fēminā duce (neque enim sexum in imperiīs discernunt) sūmpsēre ūniversī bellum;Roused 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; Agr. 16.1ac sparsōs per castella mīlitēs cōnsectātī, expugnātīs praesidiīs ipsam colōniam invāsēre ut sēdem servitūtis, nec ūllum in barbarīs saevitiae genus omīsit īra et victōria.and 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. Agr. 16.2Quod nisi Paulīnus cognitō prōvinciae mōtū properē subvēnisset, āmissa Britannia foret;And had not Paulinus, on learning of the uprising in the province, come quickly to the rescue, Britain would have been lost; Agr. 16.2quam ūnīus proeliī fortūna veterī patientiae restituit, tenentibus arma plērīsque, quōs cōnscientia dēfectiōnis et propius ex lēgātō timor agitābat, nē quamquam ēgregius cētera adroganter in dēditōs et ut suae cuiusque iniūriae ultor dūrius cōnsuleret.but 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.
Agr. 16.3Missus igitur Petrōnius Turpiliānus tamquam exōrābilior et dēlictīs hostium novus eōque paenitentiae mītior, compositīs priōribus nihil ultrā ausus Trebelliō Maximō prōvinciam trādidit.Petronius 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. Agr. 16.4Trebellius segnior et nūllīs castrōrum experīmentīs, cōmitāte quādam cūrandī prōvinciam tenuit.Trebellius, rather slack and without any experience of camps, held the province by a certain affability in governing it. Agr. 16.4Didicēre iam barbarī quoque ignōscere vitiīs blandientibus, et interventus cīvīlium armōrum praebuit iūstam segnitiae excūsātiōnem: sed discordiā labōrātum, cum adsuētus expedītiōnibus mīles ōtiō lascīvīret.Now 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. Agr. 16.5Trebellius, fugā ac latebrīs vītātā exercitūs īrā, indecōrus atque humilis precāriō mox praefuit, ac velut pactī exercitus licentiam, dux salūtem, et sēditiō sine sanguine stetit.Trebellius, 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.
Agr. 16.6Nec Vettius Bolanus, manentibus adhūc cīvīlibus bellīs, agitāvit Britanniam disciplīnā: eadem inertia ergā hostīs, similis petulantia castrōrum, nisi quod innocēns Bolanus et nūllīs dēlictīs invīsus cāritātem parāverat locō auctōritātis.Nor 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.