1The fourth summer was spent in securing what he had overrun; 1and if the courage of the armies and the glory of the Roman name had allowed it, a boundary had been found within Britain itself. 2For the Clota and the Bodotria, carried far inland by the tides of opposite seas, are separated by a narrow neck of land: this was then being strengthened with garrisons, and the whole nearer tract was held, the enemy having been pushed back as if into another island.
Tacitus · Agricola
Agricola 23
The Clota–Bodotria line
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Tacitus, Agricola. Latin text: H. Furneaux, Cornelii Taciti Opera Minora (Oxford, 1900), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.