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 1     1| unexplored extent, where certain tribes and kingdoms are newly known
 2     2|       names, they say, the coast tribes are called Ingævones; those
 3     2|           from the fact that the tribes which first crossed the
 4     4|         those who think that the tribes of Germany are free from
 5     5|           some of our coins. The tribes of the interior use the
 6    14|    youths voluntarily seek those tribes which are waging some war,
 7    15|          gifts from neighbouring tribes, which are sent not only
 8    16|        skins of wild beasts; the tribes on the Rhine and Danube
 9    24|      with the exception of those tribes which are ruled by kings.
10    26|  religious rites of the separate tribes, pointing out how far they
11    27|          river be to the various tribes, as they grew in strength
12    27|          Helvetii and Boii, both tribes of Gaul. The name Boiemum
13    27|       bank itself is occupied by tribes unquestionably German, --
14    28|          reckon among the German tribes the cultivators of the tithe-lands,
15    29|      tools and provisions. Other tribes you see going to battle,
16    30|      rare among the other German tribes, and simply characteristic
17    32|         help of the neighbouring tribes, either from hatred of their
18    32|          delighted eyes. May the tribes, I pray, ever retain if
19    33|         and Chasuarii, and other tribes not equally famous. Towards
20    33|       their strength. Both these tribes, as far as the ocean, are
21    34|          the frontier of all the tribes which I have enumerated,
22    37|       been divided into separate tribes with names of their own,
23    37|         their slaves. With other tribes, either from some connection
24    38|         a stated period, all the tribes of the same race assemble
25    39|          a host of most powerful tribes, they are safe, not by submitting,
26    39|        or forests. None of these tribes have any noteworthy feature,
27    40|           and while to the other tribes we display only our arms
28    42|        which live a multitude of tribes. The name of Ligii, spread
29    42|      superior in strength to the tribes just enumerated, savage
30    43|   strictly than the other German tribes, but not as yet inconsistently
31    43|           the badge of all these tribes being the round shield,
32    44|        eastern shore, washes the tribes of the Æstii, whose rites
33    44| bordering on the Suiones are the tribes of the Sitones, which, resembling
34    45|                    46. As to the tribes of the Peucini, Veneti,
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