The Romans See Their Kingdom as Weak, So They Can Do What They Want

How much of the whipping of budica, and the rape of her daughters was the decision of rome the than that of the junior officers left in charge of east anglia. I kind of think that it would have been a local, spare of the moment decision, if anything. The fact that tacitus has sutonius begging his troops to act in a certain way might tell us that he doesn't have total control over them. But all of that is really speculation on my part.