Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

It is when he attributes that failure to carelessness, negligence, failure to have regard to the consequences or however you want to translate incuriosus that he betrays his biases.  In my judgment, the failure to plant crops was a conscious decision...

Yes, absolutely. There is, I think, no way of reconstructing this episode that would have the Britons falling into a fit of forgetfulness or lassitude and somehow failing to provide for themselves. The suggestion is Tacitean bias, as you say.

It could have been a deliberate strategy. I would think it more likely a product of their revolt going awry; they had intended to be back on their own lands by sowing time, and to have reaped a considerable stock of grain from the Roman granaries to support them over winter. Instead they lost everything, and those that survived were too busy escaping from Roman attacks to do any sowing, and so fell into a long cycle of famine.

But there seems to be no way of determining which option is correct, so we'll have to just stick with our opinions for now!