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Tacitus on the Pax Romana: Whose Pax? (Box 1.2)

The Pax Romana was established through conquest. Calgacus, a Caledonian leader of one of the nations defeated to this end, remarked bitterly, “They create desolation and call it peace” (Tacitus, Agricola 30).

Tacitus, Agricola, trans. Harold Mattingly (New York: Penguin, 2009).