He might therefore safely proceed to the most audacious excesses of rapacity, licentiousness, and cruelty. He complains bitterly of his bondage, and of her rapacity and hard-heartedness. Tacitus blames his "rapacity" in part for provoking the rebellion of Boudica. He criticized lynching, the theft of Native American land, and American business rapacity. The Trojan image is abandoned in Chapter 15 which emphasizes the rapacity of the peasants. Nothing in his possession had been acquired by rapacity, and therefore his prayer was pure. Seattle's relationship with Alaska during this period was generally one of rapacity. However, Japanese rapacity had the better of it all.