people
The Britons
the Briton
also: Britannus
The inhabitants of Britain, beyond the edge of the Roman world and as yet unconquered.
Reading notes
- The Odes §1.21 Britons
The far northern people named with the Persians as Rome's adversaries.
- The Odes §1.35 Britons
The far-northern people Caesar sets out against.
- The Odes §3.4 Britons
'Savage to guests,' among the far peoples Horace would visit unharmed.
- The Odes §3.5 Britons
A people to be 'added to the empire' under Augustus.
- The Odes §4.14 Britons
About whom the Ocean roars at the edge of the world.
- The Epodes §7 the Briton
The Britons, beyond the edge of the Roman world and not yet conquered, named as a worthier enemy than fellow citizens.