Tacitus On Gaza
Tacitus, writing around the year 98, reports that as the Roman legions were extinguishing the last free holdouts in Britain, one of the native inhabitants of that land, a certain Calgacus, “superior to the others in bravery and birth,” rallied his troops against the Romans, rousing them before battle by describing the appetite the Romans had to oppress people, to occupy and rule over others everywhere, and then to misname what they did to make it sound honorable.