1Emboldened by the knowledge and the fame of this, the army clamoured that nothing was impassable to its courage, and that Caledonia must be penetrated and the boundary of Britain at last found in a continuous course of battles. 2And those who just now had been cautious and wise were eager and boastful after the event. 2This is the most unfair condition of wars: all claim successes for themselves, failures are blamed on one man. 3But the Britons, thinking that they had been beaten not by courage but by opportunity and the general's skill, abated nothing of their arrogance, but armed their young men, moved their wives and children to safe places, and ratified the alliance of their states with assemblies and sacrifices.
3And so they parted with tempers roused on both sides.