CALGACUS
The quotation comes to us from Tacitus, the Roman historian, who had no first hand knowledge of Calgacus’ speech, but who accompanied the Roman troops and presumably was informed by Calgacus’s troops.
At the time the Romans controlled most of the world as Calgacus knew it, and he was urging his tribes, as far as he knew the furthest from Rome, to resist the Romans. The quotation comes from Tacitus, the Roman historian, who had no first hand knowledge of Calgacus’ speech, but who accompanied the Roman troops and presumably was informed by Calgacus’s troops.
According to Tacitus, Calgacus (sometimes Calgacos or Galgacus) was a chieftain of the Caledonian Confederacy who fought the Roman army of Gnaeus Julius Agricola at the Battle of Mons Graupius in northern Scotland in AD 83 or 84. His name can be interpreted as Celtic *calg-ac-os, "possessing a blade", and is seemingly related to the Gaelic "calgach". Whether the word is a name or a given title is unknown.
