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If there were sumptuous country villas amidst the olive groves of the Roman countryside. |
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Why could there not be equally sumptuous country villas amidst the pear orchards of the South Downs? |
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Just fall in line, be a little reasonable, some judicious supports here and there, |
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and see what you would end up with the spectacular palace at Fishbourne. |
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The man who built it was Togidubnus, king of the Regnenses in what would be Sussex |
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one of the quickest to sign up as Rome's local ally. |
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He was rewarded，with enough wealth to build himself something fit for a Roman. |
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Only the extraordinary mosaic floors survive |
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but the place was as big as four football pitches. |
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Grand enough for someone who now gloried in the name of Tiberius Claudius Cogidumnus. |
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He couldn't have been the only British chief to realise on which side his bread was buttered. |
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All over Britain, there were rulers |
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who thought a Roman connection would do more good than harm in their pursuit of local power and status. |
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The person we usually think of as embodying British national resistance to Rome, |
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Queen Boudicca of the East Anglian tribe of the Iceni. |
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Actually came from a family of happy, even eager collaborators. |
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It only took a policy of incredible stupidity, arrogance and brutality |
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on the part of the local Roman governor to turn her from a warm supporter of Rome into its most dangerous enemy. |
