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CORNELIUS TACITUS, COFIANT AGRICOLA LLYWODRAETHWR PRYDAIN. Cyfieithiad gan A. O. Morris, rhagymadrodd gan J. Ellis Jones; gol. D. Ellis Evans. Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1975. Tt. xv, 250. £ 3.50. Though small in numbers, the Welsh Classical Section of the Guild of Graduates, from its inception in 1951, has produced a number of useful volumes on classical subjects in the Welsh language, and the present volume, dedicated to the president of the section, Professor J. Gwyn Griffiths, is a very welcome addition to its list of publications. Julius Agricola was fortunate enough to find a biographer to perpetuate his memory in a talented son-in-law, Cornelius Tacitus. The biography, in many ways sui generis and more of a history than a biography, has always been of interest to students of early British history. Though its survival depends on but a handful of manuscripts, the work presents from a Roman viewpoint a number of useful facts on the geography and inhabitants of Britain; the Romanization process is clearly evident as early as the second half of the first century A.D., and the attempt to view it from a Briton's point of view (ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant) is highly laudable in a Roman writer. Despite its clear omissions, its vagueness on military matters and the anti-Domitian bias, the work remains of abiding interest. It is, therefore, good to welcome a scholarly translation of the work into Welsh, together with a sound introduction and explanatory notes on the textual content. Both translator and commentator are alumni of the Old Free School at Llanwrst. The school, associated with the Gwydir family, has had over the years a strong classical tradition which both contributors reflect in a work of sound scholarship, well edited by Professor D. Ellis Evans. Tacitus is by no means an easy author to translate with his terse, colourful, rhetorical style, but Mr. A. O. Morris succeeds admirably and clothes the whole in a rich mantle of pure classical Welsh. Ideally, one would have liked the inclusion of a Latin text to face the Welsh translation, but the exorbitant costs of publishing would no doubt have meant increasing the volume's price. Mr. John Ellis Jones gives a very comprehensive picture of the organization of the Roman Empire in his introduction. Apart from an historical sketch of its development, he gives us chapters on the administrative system in Rome and the provinces, the military system with detailed information of army life, and a full account of Britain before Agricola, under Agricola and after Agricola. His notes on the text are full and helpful. As one would expect from a military expert, the information on military life in Roman Britain is particularly good, and the attractive plates, figures and maps do much to clarify the detail contained in the volume. Although Mr. Jones frequently refers the reader to the standard edition of the Agricola by Ogilvie and Richmond, one finds new material in this volume and useful references to more