Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

You see the difficulty...

Ahhh, I suspected there might be some sort of difficulty here!

preparation for war...

But I'm still not seeing anything about preparing for war in this passage. Tacitus is very vague about timing, but unless the people were not physically present I don't see what sort of preparation for going to war in several months would involve not sowing crops...

delay the uprising until after the autumn sowing, which is the other alternative.

Presumably if the sowing is in the spring they start their revolt in April or May, fight in June, July and August, and aim to be back for September, for the harvest?

So since they're not actually starting the revolt in March (far too early for the Romans to be on Anglesey)... what are they doing instead? If they are actively 'preparing for war', why do the Romans not notice?

But this is starting to feel a bit repetitive, and is seems unlikely that we will reach any sort of conclusion. Perhaps we had better just leave this whole debate about chronology for now and hope to move on to something else?