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Agricola

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A·gric·o·la  (-grk-l), Gnaeus Julius a.d. 37-93.
Roman soldier and politician who as governor of Britain (77-84) brought most of its inhabitants under Roman control. He also circumnavigated Britain, thereby discovering it to be an island.
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Noun1.Agricola - Roman general who was governor of Britain and extended Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth (37-93)
Gnaeus Julius Agricola
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Robertson, than if the genuine words of Caractacus, Agricola, or Alfred the Great.
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A very agricola laboriosus was I to travellers bound westward through Lincoln and Wayland to nobody knows where; they sitting at their ease in gigs, with elbows on knees, and reins loosely hanging in festoons; I the home-staying, laborious native of the soil.
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