Tacitus (a historian in Roman) tells us that in the time of Agricola, the Britons who were unfriendly toward the language of their conquerors, now became eager to speak it.

• Tacitus塔西特斯（一个罗马历史学家）告诉我们，在阿格利科拉的时代，曾经对侵略者的语言不友好的不列颠人，现在开始热切地说它了。