Agr. 31.1"Līberōs cuique ac propinquōs suōs nātūrā cārissimōs esse voluit: hī per dīlēctūs alibī servītūrī auferuntur;Nature has willed that each man's children and kin should be dearest to him: these are carried off by levies to be slaves elsewhere; Agr. 31.1coniugēs sorōrēsque etiam sī hostīlem libīdinem effugiant, nōmine amīcōrum atque hospitum polluuntur.our wives and sisters, even if they escape the enemy's lust, are defiled by men calling themselves friends and guests. Agr. 31.1" " bona fortūnaeque in tribūtum, ager atque annus in frūmentum, corpora ipsa ac manūs silvīs ac palūdibus ēmūniendīs inter verbera ac contumēliās conteruntur.Our goods and fortunes are worn away in tribute, our land and its yearly harvest in grain, our very bodies and hands in clearing forests and marshes, amid blows and insults. Agr. 31.2Nāta servitūtī mancipia semel vēneunt, atque ultrō ā dominīs aluntur: Britannia servitūtem suam cōtīdiē emit, cōtīdiē pāscit."Slaves born to servitude are sold once and for all, and are even fed by their masters: Britain buys her servitude every day, and every day she feeds it. Agr. 31.3"Ac sīcut in familiā recentissimus quisque servōrum etiam cōnservīs lūdibriō est, sīc in hōc orbis terrārum vetere famulātū novī nōs et vīlēs in excidium petimur;And just as in a household the newest of the slaves is a laughing-stock even to his fellow slaves, so in this ancient servitude of the whole world we, the newest and cheapest, are marked out for destruction; Agr. 31.3neque enim arva nōbīs aut metalla aut portūs sunt, quibus exercendīs reservēmur."for we have no fields or mines or harbours for the working of which we might be spared.
Agr. 31.4"Virtūs porrō ac ferōcia subiectōrum ingrāta imperantibus;Moreover, courage and spirit in subjects are displeasing to rulers; Agr. 31.4et longinquitās ac sēcrētum ipsum quō tūtius, eō suspectius.and our remoteness and seclusion itself, the safer it makes us, the more suspect it makes us. Agr. 31.4Ita sublātā spē veniae tandem sūmite animum, tam quibus salūs quam quibus glōria cārissima est."So, since all hope of mercy is gone, take courage at last, both you to whom safety is dearest and you to whom glory is. Agr. 31.5"Brigantēs fēminā duce exūrere colōniam, expugnāre castra, ac nisi fēlīcitās in sōcordiam vertisset, exuere iugum potuēre: nōs integrī et indomitī et in lībertātem, nōn in paenitentiam †lātūrī;The Brigantes, with a woman as their leader, were able to burn a colony, storm a camp, and, had not success turned into carelessness, to throw off the yoke: we, untouched and unsubdued, are going to fight for liberty, not for remorse; Agr. 31.5prīmō statim congressū ostendāmus, quōs sibi Caledonia virōs sēposuerit."let us show at the very first encounter what men Caledonia has kept in reserve for herself.