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... filiae
stupro violatae sunt; praecipui quique Icenorum, quasi cunctam...
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▲ ▼ | The subject of the main clause ("praecipui...exuuntur")is "all the chieftains of the Iceni": they were deprived of their ancestral property; the subject of "accepissent" in the subordinate clause is the Romans in Britain; cf the next note. Furneaux describes the "change of subject" as "harsh. This is the only way the sentence makes sense: the Romans treated the "entire region as if it were a gift to them." |
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