Agricola 20

1By suppressing these abuses at once in his first year, he surrounded peace with a fine reputation, peace which through the negligence or harshness of his predecessors had been feared no less than war. 2But when summer came, he gathered his army and was everywhere on the march, praising good discipline and keeping stragglers in check; 2he himself chose places for camps, he himself first explored estuaries and forests; 2and meanwhile he allowed the enemy no rest, but ravaged them with sudden raids; 2and when he had terrified them enough, by sparing them he displayed in turn the attractions of peace. 3By these means many states which until that day had dealt with us as equals gave hostages and laid aside their anger, and were surrounded with garrisons and forts with such skill and care that no newly acquired part of Britain had ever before passed over so unscathed.