Byron and Tacitus

Although Byron is, by our school rules, a forbidden author, I sometimes contrive to indulge myself in reading his works by stealth. Among the passages that have struck my (boyish) fancy is the couplet in "*The Bride of Abydos*" (line 912),— "Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease! He makes a solitude, and calls it—peace!" Engaged this morning in a more legitimate study, that of Tacitus, I stumbled upon this passage in the speech of Galgacus (Ag. xxx.),— "Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem adpellant." Does not this look very much like what we call "cabbaging?" If you think so, by adding it…