【BBC英国史】Beginnings英国起源(12)
Beginnings 起源（3100 B.C.——1000 A.D.）http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201212/201212310129057819990.mp3If there were sumptuous country villas amidst the olive groves of the Roman countryside, why could there not be equally sumptuous country villas amidst the pear orchards of the South Downs? Just fall in line, be a little reasonable, some judicious supports here and there, and see what you would end up with, the spectacular palace at Fishbourne. The man who built it was Togidubnus, king of the Regnenses in what would be Sussex, one of the quickest to sign up as Rome's local ally. He was rewarded with enough wealth to build himself something fit for a Roman. Only the extraordinary mosaic floors survive, but the place was as big as four football pitches, grand enough for someone who now gloried in the name of Tiberius Claudius Cogidumnus. He couldn't have been the only British chief to realise on which side his bread was buttered. All over Britain, there were rulers who thought a Roman connection would do more good than harm in their pursuit of local power and status. The person we usually think of as embodying British national resistance to Rome, Queen Boudicca of the East Anglian tribe of the Iceni, actually came from a family of happy, even eager collaborators. It only took a policy of incredible stupidity, arrogance and brutality on the part of the local Roman governor to turn her from a warm supporter of Rome into its most dangerous enemy.如若罗马乡间的橄榄树丛中，藏匿着极尽奢华的别墅。那么为何这别墅不能藏匿在，南唐斯丘陵的梨园之间呢？稍识时务， 跟随潮流，加之一些智囊的耳语诱导，便成就了这位于鱼溪的惊世宫殿。这座宫殿的建造者是托古布诺斯，瑞格斯:罗马不列颠时代的凯尔特王国（瑞格斯，即如今苏塞克斯的国王），最早与罗马缔结盟国合约的部落，他因此获得的封赏，足够其为自己建起罗马式的王宫。如今幸存的只剩下这美轮美奂的镶嵌地板，而这里曾是四个足球场大的巨型宫殿。雄伟壮丽，足以冠以提比略· 克劳蒂亚斯·库克顿波斯之名。他定不会是当时不列颠，唯一识时务的首领。岛上这种首领大有人在，他们将与罗马交好，作为自己巩固权力与地位的明智之举。提起不列颠民族抗击罗马的领袖，人们自然而然会想到东盎格鲁部落的爱西尼女王布迪卡。她本来自一个乐于甚至渴望与罗马结盟的家族。只因当地的罗马长官一项愚蠢至极，傲慢而又暴虐残忍的政策，让这本温和的支持者，倒戈成了危险劲敌。
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