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GNAEUS See also: Roman states-See also: man and general, See also: father-in-See also: law of the historian Tacitus, was See also: born on the 13th of See also: June A.D
.
37 (according to others, 39) at Forum Julii (See also: Frejus) in Gallia Narbonensis
.
His father, See also: Julius Graecinus, having been put to See also: death by Caligula, See also: Agricola was brought up by his
See also: mother Julia Procilla
.
After studying philosophy at Massilia, he entered the army and served (59) under Suetonius Paulinus in Britain
.
In 61 he returned to See also: Rome, where he married Domitia Decidiana, a Roman lady of distinction
.
In 63 he was quaestor in See also: Asia, in 65 tribune, in 68 praetor, and when See also: Vespasian was proclaimed emperor, he immediately declared himself his supporter
.
In 70 he was appointed to the command of the loth See also: legion in Britain, then stationed at Deva (See also: Chester)
.
On his return to Rome at the end of three years he was made censor, raised to the See also: rank of patrician, and appointed governor of Aquitania (74-78)
.
Appointed See also: consul suffectus in the following See also: year, he was admitted into the See also: college of pontiffs and made governor of Britain
.
In the same year he betrothed his daughter to Tacitus
.
Although the legation of Britain lasted as a See also: rule only three years, Agricola held the See also: post for at least seven and succeeded in reconciling the inhabitants to Roman rule and inducing them to adopt the customs and See also: civilization of their conquerors
.
His military achievements were equally brilliant
.
After conquering the Ordovices in See also: North See also: Wales and the See also: island of See also: Mona (Anglesey), during the next two years he carried his victorious arms to the Taus (Tay; others read Tanaus, perhaps the north See also: Tyne), and in his See also: fourth See also: campaign fortified the country between Clota and Bodotria (the firths of See also: Clyde and Forth) as a See also: protection against the attacks of
the Caledonians
.
Having explored the coasts of Fife and See also: Forfar, he gained a decisive victory over the Caledonians under See also: Galgacus at the Graupian See also: hill (see BRITAIN, Roman)
.
His successes, however, had aroused the envy and suspicion of
See also: Domitian
.
He was recalled to Rome,' where he lived a See also: life of studied retirement, to avoid the possibility of giving offence to the See also: tyrant
.
He died in 93, poisoned, it was rumoured, by the emperor's orders
.
The Life of Agricola by his son-in-law Tacitus
is practically a See also: panegyric or funeral oration
.
See Urlichs, De Vita et Honoribus Agricolae (1868) ; Dio Cassius xxxix
.
50, lxvi
.
20; See also: Mommsen, Provinces of the Roman See also: Empire (Eng. trans., 1886), i
.
183-184, 194
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