![]() ![]() The use of the word "lioness" has commonly been taken as a reference to Queen Boudicca and her famous revolt of 62AD, - see my original review - but Dr Wiliams believed that the word referred to Britain as a whole. ![]() Gildas refers at one point to a rebellion by the Britons against the Romans, which came from "the treacherous lioness", leaena dolosa are the words he uses. The translation was similar to the version I read in 2015, but there was one significant difference in interpretation. The Williams version also includes a range of other writings by or attributed to Gildas, of a purely religious nature. The version I have just read was a 19th century one edited by a Hugh Williams, and it includes the Latin text as well as the English translation. Update - I read through another edition of De excidio Britanniae today, mainly to see whether there were any differences in translation with the version I read in 2015 - review below. ![]()
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