Status Updates From Boudicca’s Rebellion AD 60–...

"The provincial towns of Colchester-Camulodunum, London-Londinium and St Albans-Verulamium were quickly overrun, looted and razed to the ground, captured Romans and their sympathizers, regardless of age or sex, hideously abused, and the best part of the one remaining Roman legion that had been left in that part of the province ambushed and destroyed."

"The invasion of Britannia was a happenstance of hope, its aims absurd, no more than a quest for glory. It was a misguided enterprise, and the province itself was to prove a rather expensive mistake."

"'Plunder, murder and rapine, these things they misname empire: they create desolation and call it peace' (Tacitus Agricola 30.4, 5)."

"Had my high birth and rank been accompanied by moderation in my hour of success, I should have entered this city as a friend and not a prisoner. (...) My present position is degrading to me, but glorious to you. I had horses, warriors and gold; if I was unwilling to lose them, what wonder is that? Does it follow that because you desire universal empire, one must accept universal slavery? "
Tacitus Annales 12.37.1