Chapter 16-3
‘I don’t know what you’re getting at, Lovernios, but everyone can make mistakes — perhaps I’m just putting one of the Iceni’s right. The Catuvellauni have always been our tribal enemies. We used to war against them every year as a matter of pride and they against us. We still sing with pride of our battle prowess. But our elders tell how they grew too strong and started to take too much, they subsumed whole tribes: our neighbours vanished and we worried they’d come for us. The Iceni suffered many threats from every quarter, our land is rich and our peoples resplendent in Druidic gold, what else should we expect? In a way, their envy is like a bitter compliment. We had to deal with the most urgent threat first, so we turned, with our neighbours, to Rome.’ ‘What I’m getting at, madam, is th
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