Ceterum aestate, qua sextum officii annum incohabat, amplexus civitates trans Bodotriam sitas, quia motus universarum ultra gentium et infesta hostili exercitu itinera timebantur, portus classe exploravit; quae ab Agricola primum adsumpta in partem virium sequebatur egregia specie, cum simul terra, simul mari bellum impelleretur, ac saepe isdem castris pedes equesque et nauticus miles mixti copiis et laetitia sua quisque facta, suos casus attollerent, ac modo silvarum ac montium profunda, modo tempestatum ac fluctuum adversa, hinc terra et hostis, hinc victus Oceanus militari iactantia compararentur.
Be that as it may, in the summer in which he began his sixth year of office he embraced in his operations the tribes beyond the Forth: fearing a general movement on the part of all the tribes on the further side, and afraid of routes which were dangerous because of the threats of a hostile army, he explored the harbours with his fleet. Agricola was the first to make it a factor in his resources, and it made a fine display as it followed his advance: the war was pushed by sea and land simultaneously, and often infantry, cavalry, and marines, sharing their rations in a joint celebration, magnified their several feats, their several escapes: forest depths and mountain heights on the one side, the trials of tempests and of seas on the other; the conquest of the land and the enemy by these men, of the ocean by those'here were themes for comparison and for a soldiers boast.
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