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Agricola 21 states that British togas, baths, and porticoes were called humanitas when they were a form of servitude

Agricola 21 says the governor encouraged temples, forums, houses, Latin, and the toga, and that among the inexperienced this was called humanitas when it was part of servitude. In the causal graph this event weakens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

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Agricola 21 says the governor encouraged temples, forums, houses, Latin, and the toga, and that among the inexperienced this was called humanitas when it was part of servitude. He did not pour British concrete. Cohesion here is ironic: Roman culture as a solvent of independence, a harm to prior belonging. Archival locator: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Agricola at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.agri.shtml (opens in a new tab) (The Latin Library). Independent locator: Perseus — Tacitus, Agricola (English) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0081 (opens in a new tab) (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

Context

The same winter is sometimes praised as education. That improving clone is refused; the education-path of the Agricola is the biography as a book, not this epigram. Displacement of custom sits beside the conquest row without copying Mons Graupius.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Why it matters

A portable irony about culture as rule is a cohesion path. Medium-high confidence on the sentence; how far Britons experienced baths as slavery is not a unique survey. Later postcolonial quotation is reception.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Tacitus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    He wrote the epigram. Agricola’s winter policy of urbanising chiefs is the received deed. Complex irony, not a UNESCO heritage file.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactAgricola 21 states that British togas, baths, and porticoes were called humanitas when they were a form of servitude
    2. weakensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 98 · verified

    • Having a say in government

      via Social Cohesion

      Worse

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Social Cohesion

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Perseus — Tacitus, Agricola (English)Perseus Digital Library / Tufts · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.The Latin Library — Tacitus, AgricolaThe Latin Library · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Latin Library Agricola 21 is the public Latin. Perseus English independently carries the humanitas/servitude sentence. Britannica’s Agricola/Britain pages rest on this portrait. Later excavation of Romano-British towns is not his lifetime deed.

Established: Agricola 21 as his 98 text. Not established: a unique count of togas, or that every bath is Agricola’s. Conventional year. Not a 21st-century theory essay as the act.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Agricola 21 states that British togas, baths, and porticoes were called humanitas when they were a form of servitude are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Agricola 21 states that British togas, baths, and porticoes were called humanitas when they were a form of servitude. Naming Tacitus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0098-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorTacitus
  2. contributed toFactAgricola 21 states that British togas, baths, and porticoes were called humanitas when they were a form of servitude
  3. weakensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Agricola 21 states that British togas, baths, and porticoes were called humanitas when they were a form of servitude. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/tac-agricola-humanitas-servitude

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