As far as the Roman historians were concerned, Britannia might well be off the edge of the world. But it was off the edge of their world, not in some howling barbarian wilderness. And if the same writers have been able to travel in time as well as space to the northernmost of our islands to the Orcades, our modern Orkney, they would have seen something much more astonishing than heaps of pearls, the unmistakable signs of a civilization thousands of years older than Rome.
Words and Phrases:
pretium victoriae: the price of victory
overcast: Clouded over. 多云的，阴的
howling : Desolate; dreary 荒僻的;凄凉的
