Capitolo 11
part of the island, he advanced with the other to the head of a,
enormous strength, determined to audaciously push direct in the heart
of Scotland, and to bring the war with the Pictses and Scots to a
real end.
However, he met him with very partial success. His/her soldiers became
entangled in slushes and marshes; they fell in ambuscades; them
suffered from every degree of deprivation and the work for lack of water and
of food, and you/he/she was continually trapped by their enemies in situations
where they had to fight in the small numbers and to a great disadvantage.
Also, then the elderly one and general weak it was kept in a continuous fever
of the anxiety and acted by Bassianus, his/her child with that he had brought
him to the north. The dissoluteness and the violence of its character were
not changed by the change of scene. He formed plots and conspiracies
against the authority of his/her father; he raised mutinies in the army; him
led insurrections; and he was finally open indeed in a plan for
murdering his/her father. Severus, when he discovered this last
the enormousness of wickedness, expeditious for his/her child to come to his/her imperial curtain.
He placed a naked sword in front of him, and then, after having reproached bitterly
him with his/her disobedient and ungrateful behavior, he said, "If you desire
to kill myself, does now it. Here I am standing, old, unsteady, and defenseless. You
it is young and strong, and you/he/she can easily do him/it. I am ready. Strikes the
hit."
Clearly Bassianus him tightened by the reproaches of his/her father, and it went
away without committing the crime to which it was so in tone of reproach him
guest; but its character was unchanged; and this constant
acts, it added to the whole other difficulties that Severus
met, it prevented his bringing defeasible completely his/her object of
conquering his/her northern enemies. He made a kind of the peace with them,
and retired south to the line of places strengthened that you/they had been
before established, he determined to do him/it a fixed and certain