Agr. 23.1Quarta aestās obtinendīs quae percucurrerat īnsūmpta;The fourth summer was spent in securing what he had overrun; Agr. 23.1ac sī virtūs exercituum et Rōmānī nōminis glōria paterētur, inventus in ipsā Britanniā terminus.and if the courage of the armies and the glory of the Roman name had allowed it, a boundary had been found within Britain itself. Agr. 23.2Namque Clota et Bodotria dīversī maris aestibus per inmēnsum revectae, angustō terrārum spatiō dirimuntur: quod tum praesidiīs firmābātur atque omnis propior sinus tenēbātur, summōtīs velut in aliam īnsulam hostibus.For 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.
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Agricola 23
The Clota–Bodotria line
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| quartus, -a, -um | fourth |
| aestās, -tātis, f. | summer |
| obtineō, -tinēre, -tinuī, -tentus | hold |
| quī, quae, quod, rel. pron. | who, which |
| percurrō, -ere, -cucurrī, -cursus | run along, run through |
| īnsūmō, -ere, -sūmpsī, -sūmptus | spend, devote, use up (time, effort) |
| atque, ac (conj.) | and; after comparisons: as, than (ac only before consonants) |
| sī, conj. | if |
| virtūs, -tūtis, f. | manliness, courage, bravery |
| exercitus, -ūs, m. | army |
| et, conj. | and; et ... et, both ... and |
| Rōmānus, -a, -um | Roman |
| nōmen, -minis, n. | name (that by which one is known) |
| glōria, -ae, f. | glory |
| patior, patī, passus, bear | suffer, allow |
| inveniō, -venīre, -vēnī, -ventus | come upon, find |
| in, prep. with acc. and abl. | with acc.: into, onto, against; with abl.: in, on |
| ipse, ipsa, ipsum, intensive pron. | self, himself, herself, itself, themselves; often to be rendered by very |
| terminus, -ī m. | boundary, limit |
| namque, conj. | for |
| dīversus, -a, -um | turned different ways, opposite, contrary, different |
| mare, maris, n. | sea |
| aestus, -ūs m. | heat; tide |
| per, prep, with ace. | through, by means of |
| immēnsus (inmēnsus), -a, -um | immeasurable, boundless, vast |
| revehō, -ere, -vēxī, -vectus | carry back |
| angustus, -a, -um | narrow, cramped |
| terra, -ae, f. | land, earth |
| spatium, -ī, n. | space, interval; space of time, time |
| dirimō, -ere, dirēmī, dirēmptum | break off, interrupt |
| tum, adv. | then, at that time |
| praesidium, -ī, n. | protection; guard, escort |
| firmō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus | strengthen, secure |
| omnis, -e | all, every |
| propior, -ius | nearer (+ dat.) |
| sinus, -ūs, m. | bosom, lap |
| teneō, -ēre, -uī, -tus | hold, keep; hold back, restrain, stop |
| summoveō, -ēre, -mōvī, -mōtus | drive off, force back |
| velut | even or just as, as |
| alius, -a, -ud | another, other; aliī ... aliī, some ... others |
| īnsula, -ae, f. | island |
| hostis, -is, m. and f. | enemy, foe |
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.