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

Date: 98

## The fact

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 (The Latin Library). Independent locator: Perseus — Tacitus, Agricola (English) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0081 (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. Archival locator: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Agricola at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.agri.shtml (The Latin Library). Independent locator: Perseus — Tacitus, Agricola (English) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0081 (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

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

## Evidence and sources

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. Archival locator: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Agricola at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.agri.shtml (The Latin Library). Independent locator: Perseus — Tacitus, Agricola (English) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0081 (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

Official or archival record: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Agricola (https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.agri.shtml; The Latin Library).

## Significance

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. Archival locator: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Agricola at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.agri.shtml (The Latin Library). Independent locator: Perseus — Tacitus, Agricola (English) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0081 (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

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

## What is established and what is not

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. Archival locator: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Agricola at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.agri.shtml (The Latin Library). Independent locator: Perseus — Tacitus, Agricola (English) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0081 (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

The attached driver is [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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. Do not treat later bath archaeology as his 98 act. 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.

## People

- Tacitus: https://factrail.ai/people/tacitus

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0081
- https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.agri.shtml

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tac-agricola-humanitas-servitude