Note 48 — Chapter I · ADVANCE OF THE ROMANS TO THE FIRTHS OF FORTH AND CLYDE.

‘Quod tum præsidiis firmabatur.’ These were obviously different from and farther south than the forts mentioned in the previous campaign. The expression ‘summotis velut in aliam insulam hostibus’ is the significant one used in fixing the barrier between the provincial Britons and the Barbarians (see chap. ii. note 70), and implies that Agricola’s intention was to add the conquered country south of the firths to the province. ‘Summotis’ does not here or elsewhere mean the actual driving out of the natives, but that those within the line of separation had ceased to be ‘hostes.’