7th October 2011, 07:53 PM
Quote:But did the Romans even bother to ask the Britons if they thought themselves Roman?
I doubt the thought would have occurred to them. Romans were citizens of Rome. Everyone else was most definitely not Roman. Chugging olive oil and garum out of Samian and giving your sprog a Latin name, didn't make you Roman.
The Romans would have wet themselves laughing at the notion that any filthy barbarian from a conquered area might consider themselves "Roman". In fact, I believe Tacitus actually may have. The sarky b'stard.