1The following winter was spent on most salutary measures. 1For in order that men who were scattered and uncivilised, and therefore ready for war, might grow used to peace and leisure through pleasures, he encouraged them privately and assisted them publicly to build temples, forums and houses, praising the eager and rebuking the sluggish: so rivalry for honour took the place of compulsion. 2Moreover, he had the sons of the chieftains educated in the liberal arts, and rated the natural talents of the Britons above the studies of the Gauls, so that those who until lately rejected the Roman tongue now desired its eloquence. 3Hence even our dress came into favour, and the toga was often seen; 3and little by little they strayed towards the allurements of vice, colonnades and baths and elegant banquets.
3And this was called civilisation by the inexperienced, when it was part of their servitude.