Hume's Acount of the Battle at Anglesesy

Around 61 AD the Roman Governor of Roman Britain, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, sought to attack fugitives and Druids located on the island of Anglesesy, which is close to the coast of Wales.

As the Romans looked across the straits separating Anglesesy from the mainland, they saw something amazing as recounted by David Hume:

"The women and priests were intermingled with the soldiers upon the shore ; and running about with flaming torches in their hands, and tossing their disheveled hair, they struck greater terror into the astonished Romans by their howlings, cries, and execrations, then the real danger from the armed forces was able to inspire."

Hume, David (1856), The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James The Second, Boston: Phillips Samson, and Company, p. 6.

The behavior of these early people of Britain, and the Gothic tribes of N. Europe several centuries later, presented the Roman Legions with many spectacular experiences locked away in the writings of history. Hume's account is frightening!