Dreading an attack from the northern tribes,

由于害怕受到北方部落的攻击，

Agricola resolved to strike them within their own bounds.

阿格里科拉决定先下手为强，在他们自己的地盘里将它们击败。

Leaving his fortified line, and crossing the Forth at Queensferry, he advanced northward through Fife.

他离开堡垒，在昆斯费里跨过福斯湾，一路北上。

The clans rose for the defence of their country against the fierce people

北方部落奋起反抗，保卫自己土地

whose lust of dominion had brought them so far;

不被这些征服欲很强的人抢夺去；

and they put a chief named Galgacus at their head.

他们推选加尔贾克斯作为首领。

What manner of man he was who has come down to us under this name,

我们无法获知他是个什么样的人，

 

what life he lived, or what death he died, we have no means of knowing;

过着什么样的生活，或者是怎么死去的；

but the man around whom these old clans gathered,

但是这些古老的部落能推选他为领袖，

to bleed and die for country and freedom, must have had in him some of the stuff of which heroes are made.

愿意跟随他为这个国家的自由流血牺牲，他肯定有着英雄的某些特质。

The Romans found the Caledonian army drawn up on the moor of Ardoch, in Perthshire, at the foot of the Grampian mountains (A. D. 84).

罗马人发现苏格兰军队在佩思郡格兰扁山脉脚下的啊多克沼泽逼近（公元84年）。

Tacitus says that they were 30,000 strong—the Romans 26,000.

据塔西佗所记，苏格兰军队一共有30000将士——罗马军队只有26000人。

The Caledonians fought with desperate courage, but the vastly superior discipline and arms of the Romans gave them every advantage.

苏格兰军队不顾一切地英勇战斗，但是，罗马军队训练有素，占了上风。