Emperor Septimius Severus personally led the last great Roman military expedition into Scotland, aged and ill with gout — he was carried in a litter. He brought an enormous force including legions from the Rhine. The campaign reached at least as far north as the Moray Firth. Cassius Dio records staggering losses: 50,000 men from disease and guerrilla warfare. The Caledonians and Maeatae submitted but broke the peace almost immediately. Severus planned a war of extermination — he quoted Homer: "Let none escape".
c.50,000 Roman losses from all causes (Cassius Dio)
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