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Episode CLXXIV - Boudicca

Emperors of Rome

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What Happened to the Romans?

Tacitus tells us just before the budica uprising, in his narrative in the annals, in book 14, chapter 31, i quote, the veterans. These are the people who have been settled at camelodona. The men chosen as its priests were pouring away whole fortunes in the name of religion. So there's all kinds of reasons to be dissatisfied with the romans. I think that this is not directly to do with what's going on, except that it's taken the new governor.

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