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Boadicea:
Queen of the Iceni
In stature she was very tall,
in appearance most terrifying,
in the glance of her eye most fierce,
and her voice was harsh;
a great mass of the tawniest hair fell to her hips;
around her neck was a large golden necklace;
and she wore a tunic of divers colours over which a
thick mantle was fastened with a brooch.
This was her invariable attire.
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[In
AD 60] a terrible disaster occurred in Britain. Two
cities were sacked, eighty thousand of the Romans and
of their allies perished, and the island was lost to
Rome. Moreover, all this ruin was brought upon the Romans
by a woman, a fact which in itself caused them the greatest
shame ...
The
person who was chiefly instrumental in rousing the natives
and persuading them to fight the Romans, the person
who was thought worthy to be their leader and who directed
the conduct of the entire war, was Boadicea, a Briton
woman of the royal family and possessed of greater intelligence
than often belongs to women ...
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