Indeed, the Scots and Picts gave their legions quite sufficient occupation defending the ramparts of Adrian and Antoninus, to deter them from attempting to obtain more, when they could so hardly hold what they already possessed.
The insurrection of the Aitheach Tuatha,[94] or Attacotti, is the next event of importance in Irish history.

Their plans were deeply and wisely laid, and promised the success they obtained.

It is one of the lessons of history which rulers in all ages would do well to study.

There is a degree of oppression which even the most degraded will refuse to endure; there is a time when the injured will seek revenge, even should they know that this revenge may bring on themselves yet deeper wrongs.

The leaders of the revolt were surely men of some judgment; and both they and those who acted under them possessed the two great qualities needed for such an enterprise.