credidere plerique libertum ex secretioribus ministeriis missum ad Agricolam codicillos, quibus ei Syria dabatur, tulisse cum praecepto ut, si in Britannia foret, traderentur; eumque libertum in ipso freto Oceani obvium Agricolae, ne appellato quidem eo ad Domitianum remeasse, sive verum istud, sive ex ingenio principis  fictum ac compositum est.
It was generally believed that a freedman of the inner circle of agents had been sent to Agricola with despatches in which Syria was offered him, with instructions to deliver his message should Agricola be in Britain; and that this freedman, meeting Agricola on the very coast of the Channel, returned to Domitian without even accosting him. Possibly it was true; possibly a fiction suggested by the Imperial temperament.
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