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Tacitus’s Life of Cnaeus Julius Agricola notes that Britain “faces Germany on the east, Spain on the west; on the south it is even within sight of Gaul.” Did the Romans think that Ireland was part of Spain?

by /u/wulfrickson in /r/AskHistorians

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