09-02-2008, 05:16 PM
Quote:Right. The idea of world conquest, so important in Republican and Augustan propaganda, had been abandoned during the reign of Tiberius, who had in Germania seen the problems it generated. Claudius essentially continued this new policy - Britain being the atypical conquest.
Right. I do also think that the plans for conquering Britain finally ended with Hadrianus and its Vallum hadriani....