Editing Boudica (section)

==Events leading to the revolt==
On his death in AD 60/61, Prasutagus made his two daughters as well as the Roman Emperor [[Nero]] his heirs.<ref name="Pot" /> The Romans ignored the will, and the kingdom was absorbed into the province of [[Roman Britain|Britannia]].<ref name="Ell9294" /> [[Catus Decianus]], procurator of Britain, was sent to secure the Iceni kingdom for Rome.<ref name="Davies 2008 pp. 134–136" />

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|source = —Part of a speech Cassius Dio gives Boudica<ref name="Dio 2015 pp. 84–87">{{harvnb |Cassius Dio |2015 |pp=[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004124510?urlappend=%3Bseq=95%3Bownerid=13510798888475493-99 84–87]}}</ref>
| quote = "Have we not been robbed entirely of most of our possessions, and those the greatest, while for those that remain we pay taxes? Besides pasturing and tilling for them all our other possessions, do we not pay a yearly tribute for our very bodies? How much better it would be to have been sold to masters once for all than, possessing empty titles of freedom, to have to ransom ourselves every year! How much better to have been slain and to have perished than to go about with a tax on our heads!... Among the rest of mankind death frees even those who are in slavery to others; only in the case of the Romans do the very dead remain alive for their profit. Why is it that, though none of us has any money (how, indeed, could we, or where would we get it?), we are stripped and despoiled like a murderer's victims? And why should the Romans be expected to display moderation as time goes on, when they have behaved toward us in this fashion at the very outset, when all men show consideration even for the beasts they have newly captured?"}}

The Romans' next actions were described by Tacitus, who detailed pillaging of the countryside, the ransacking of the king's household, and the brutal treatment of Boudica and her daughters. According to Tacitus, Boudica was [[Flagellation|flogged]] and her daughters were [[rape]]d.<ref name="Ell9294" /> These abuses are not mentioned in Dio's account, who instead cites three different causes for the rebellion: the recalling of loans that were given to the Britons by [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]]; Decianus Catus's confiscation of money formerly loaned to the Britons by the Emperor [[Claudius]]; and Boudica's own entreaties.<ref name="Hingley Unwin 2006 p. 52–53"/><ref name="Adl" /> The loans were thought by the Iceni to have been repaid by gift exchange.<ref name="Davies 2008 pp. 134–136" />

Dio gives Boudica a speech to her people and their allies reminding them that life was much better before the Roman occupation, stressing that wealth cannot be enjoyed under slavery and placing the blame upon herself for not expelling the Romans as they had done when [[Julius Caesar]] invaded.<ref name="Ell9294" /> The willingness of those seen as barbarians to sacrifice a higher quality of living under the Romans in exchange for their freedom and personal liberty was an important part of what Dio considered to be motivation for the rebellions.<ref name="New86" />