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1 1| 1. Germany is separated from
2 10| 10. Augury and divination by
3 11| 11. About minor matters the
4 12| 12. In their councils an accusation
5 13| 13. They transact no public
6 14| 14. When they go into battle,
7 15| 15. Whenever they are not fighting,
8 15| them to accept money also.~16. It is well known that the
9 16| 17. They all wrap themselves
10 17| 18. Their marriage code, however,
11 18| 19. Thus with their virtue
12 2| 2. The Germans themselves
13 19| 20. In every household the
14 20| 21. It is a duty among them
15 36| we have to reckon about 210 years. So long have we been
16 21| 22. On waking from sleep, which
17 22| 23. A liquor for drinking is
18 23| 24. One and the same kind of
19 24| 25. The other slaves are not
20 25| 26. Of lending money on interest
21 26| 27. In their funerals there
22 27| 28. That highest authority,
23 28| 29. Foremost among all these
24 3| 3. They say that Hercules,
25 29| 30. Beyond them are the Chatti,
26 30| 31. A practice, rare among
27 31| 32. Next to the Chatti on the
28 32| 33. After the Tencteri came,
29 33| 34. The Angrivarii and Chamavi
30 34| 35. Thus far we have taken
31 35| 36. Dwelling on one side of
32 36| 37. In the same remote corner
33 37| 38. I must now speak of the
34 38| 39. The Semnones give themselves
35 4| 4. For my own part, I agree
36 39| 40. To the Langobardi, on the
37 40| 41. Nearer to us is the state
38 41| 42. The Narisci border on the
39 42| 43. Behind them the Marsigni,
40 43| 44. Beyond the Ligii are the
41 44| 45. Beyond the Suiones is another
42 45| 46. As to the tribes of the
43 5| 5. Their country, though somewhat
44 6| 6. Even iron is not plentiful
45 36| emigration. Rome was in her 640th year when we first heard
46 7| 7. They choose their kings
47 8| 8. Tradition says that armies
48 9| 9. Mercury is the deity whom
49 6| indecisive engagements. To abandon your shield is the basest
50 4| exertion. They are less able to bear laborious work.
51 1| gently rising slope of Mount Abnoba, and visits many nations,
52 12| unwarlike, the man stained with abominable vices, is plunged into the
53 2| themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with
54 9| names of deities to the abstraction which they see only in spiritual
55 21| seldom fought out with mere abuse, but commonly with wounds
56 12| Penalties are distinguished ac-cording to the offence. Traitors
57 15| have now taught them to accept money also.~16. It is well
58 33| ocean barred the explorer's access to itself and to Hercules.
59 10| yoked to a sacred car, and accompanied by the priest and the king,
60 27| among powerful monarchies! Accordingly the country between the
61 18| subsequent offspring is accounted infamous, and good habits
62 12| 12. In their councils an accusation may be preferred or a capital
63 38| a chain, as an inferior acknowledging the might of the local divinity.
64 20| distinguishes between an acquaintance and a stranger, as regards
65 10| gods, and the horses as acquainted with their will. They have
66 14| think it tame and stupid to acquire by the sweat of toil what
67 21| without either natural or acquired cunning, they disclose their
68 44| that these productions, acted on by the near rays of the
69 6| admirably adapted to the action of the latter is the swiftness
70 33| reverential to believe in the actions of the gods than to inquire.~
71 43| prow at either extremity acts as a forepart, always ready
72 6| with the cavalry; admirably adapted to the action of the latter
73 44| rising, as popular belief adds, may be heard, and the forms
74 44| a liquid state into the adjacent sea, and are thrown up by
75 43| with freedom. Immediately adjoining them, further from the coast,
76 6| along with the cavalry; admirably adapted to the action of
77 19| and limbs which we so much admire. Every mother suckles her
78 7| they lead because they are admired. But to reprimand, to imprison,
79 20| is a duty among them to adopt the feuds as well as the
80 37| tall and terrible, they adorn themselves, so to speak,
81 18| cut off the hair of the adulteress and stripped her naked,
82 18| numerous a population is adultery, the punishment for which
83 28| our frontier having been advanced, and our military positions
84 19| old age; nor are there any advantages in childlessness.~
85 28| Rhine and Danube. Reckless adventurers from Gaul, emboldened by
86 12| who support him with their advice and influence.~
87 44| washes the tribes of the Æstii, whose rites and fashions
88 11| rests with the people, the affair is always thoroughly discussed
89 39| she interposes in human affairs, and visits the nations
90 37| till their heads are grey, affect the fashion of drawing back
91 19| secure a stronger hold on the affections and a wider bond for the
92 5| say. I would not, however, affirm that no vein of German soil
93 2| who would leave Asia, or Africa, or Italy for Germany, with
94 31| to their youths: even the aged keep it up. Horses are bequeathed
95 4| 4. For my own part, I agree with those who think that
96 33| country, or whether we have agreed to ascribe every work of
97 27| and prefer to be called Agrippinenses, from the name of their
98 3| general cry of valour. They aim chiefly at a harsh note
99 29| deliberateness is more akin to steady courage.~
100 3| shouts, they inspire or feel alarm. It is not so much an articulate
101 42| divinity, the name being Alcis. They have no images, or,
102 42| Tribute is imposed on them as aliens, partly by the Sarmatæ,
103 38| here dwells the supreme and all-ruling deity, to whom all else
104 27| and given proof of their allegiance, they were settled on the
105 21| the forming of matrimonial alliances, on the choice of chiefs,
106 40| Rætia. Everywhere they are allowed to pass without a guard;
107 18| live uncorrupted by the allurements of public shows or the stimulant
108 1| inaccessible height of the Rhætian Alps, bends slightly westward,
109 | already
110 3| inhabited. They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses, with
111 34| righteous dealing. Without ambition, without lawless violence,
112 44| of the goddess safe even amidst enemies. They often use
113 5| whether in kindness or in anger I cannot say. I would not,
114 39| Reudigni, the Aviones, the Anglii, the Varini, the Eudoses,
115 16| commerce. These select certain animals, the hides of which they
116 8| or make light of their answers. In Vespasian's days we
117 | anyone
118 43| as on some rivers, the apparatus of rowing is unfixed, and
119 4| foreign nations, and that they appear as a distinct, unmixed race,
120 9| Hercules and Mars they appease with more lawful offerings.
121 2| and the nation several appellations, as Marsi, Gambrivii, Suevi,
122 7| they are his most generous applauders. The soldier brings his
123 35| moderation and justice are terms applied only to the more powerful;
124 9| woods and groves, and they apply the names of deities to
125 44| composition of amber by applying fire, it burns like pinewood,
126 11| ordinary and their legal appointments. Night they regard as bringing
127 15| cold. And should an enemy approach, he lays waste the open
128 3| augur the result of the approaching conflict. For, as their
129 11| of assent is to express approbation with their weapons.~
130 13| mature strength and of long approved valour. It is no shame to
131 7| kings have not unlimited or arbitrary power, and the generals
132 39| up by its waters. Hence arises a mysterious terror and
133 16| sleeves. The upper and lower arm is thus bare, and the nearest
134 15| Their villages they do not arrange in our fashion, with the
135 37| thoughts of love-making; but arranging their hair when they go
136 2| sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and,
137 45| They trust wholly to their arrows, which, for want of iron,
138 36| than the despotism of an Arsaces. What else, indeed, can
139 42| ferocity by the help of art and opportunity. Their shields
140 5| dealers in cheap and common articles.~
141 3| alarm. It is not so much an articulate sound, as a general cry
142 3| founded and named the town of Asciburgium, which stands on the bank
143 2| unknown seas, who would leave Asia, or Africa, or Italy for
144 30| have slain a foe laying aside that peculiar aspect which
145 20| departing guest whatever he may ask for, and a present in return
146 20| and a present in return is asked with as little hesitation.
147 11| wasted in the delays of assembling. When the multitude think
148 11| most complimentary form of assent is to express approbation
149 2| permitted by antiquity, assert that the god had several
150 2| founders. To Mannus they assign three sons, from whose names,
151 24| distinct domestic duties assigned to them, but each one has
152 12| Each of these has a hundred associates chosen from the people,
153 38| forefathers, and by immemorial associations of terror. Here, having
154 30| Nor even in peace do they assume a more civilised aspect.
155 13| rank of a chief; such lads attach themselves to men of mature
156 6| provided you return to the attack, is considered prudence
157 33| Subsequently no one has made the attempt, and it has been thought
158 38| Their antiquity is strongly attested by their religion. At a
159 42| sanctity. A priest in female attire has the charge of it. But
160 15| a meadow, or a wood has attracted them. Their villages they
161 15| masses without ornament or attractiveness. Some parts of their buildings
162 42| Pollux. Such, indeed, are the attributes of the divinity, the name
163 3| while from the note they augur the result of the approaching
164 38| grove consecrated by the auguries of their forefathers, and
165 36| Carbo, Cassius, Scaurus Aurelius, Servilius Cæpio, and Marcus
166 8| times, too, they venerated Aurinia, and many other women, but
167 10| another method of observing auspices, by which they seek to learn
168 11| this they consider the most auspicious season for the transaction
169 25| the name and blessings of autumn are alike unknown.~
170 12| person whose wrongs are avenged and to his relatives. In
171 15| so fond of idleness, so averse to peace. It is the custom
172 39| Next come the Reudigni, the Aviones, the Anglii, the Varini,
173 23| stubborn persistency in a bad practice; they themselves
174 44| where frankincense and balsam exude, contain fruitful
175 40| trade not merely on the banks of the river, but far inland,
176 38| horrible beginning of their barbarous rite. Reverence also in
177 3| by the recital of which ("baritus," they call it), they rouse
178 22| drinking is made out of barley or other grain, and fermented
179 33| lack daring; but the ocean barred the explorer's access to
180 5| ancient practice of the barter of commodities. They like
181 6| abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man
182 45| the Peucini called by some Bastarnæ, are like Germans in their
183 7| that their squadrons or battalions, instead of being formed
184 42| infernal appearance. For in all battles it is the eye which is first
185 4| exertion. They are less able to bear laborious work. Heat and
186 30| of letting the hair and beard grow as soon as they have
187 45| The Fenni are strangely beastlike and squalidly poor; neither
188 | becomes
189 45| their clothing skins, their bed the earth. They trust wholly
190 8| with such extreme dread on behalf of their women, that the
191 9| the grandeur of celestial beings to confine the gods within
192 3| sound. Ulysses, too, is believed by some, in his long legendary
193 34| till it reaches with a bend as far as the Chatti. This
194 1| height of the Rhætian Alps, bends slightly westward, and mingles
195 32| sixty thousand fell, not beneath the Roman arms and weapons,
196 31| aged keep it up. Horses are bequeathed along with the slaves, the
197 | beside
198 15| custom of the states to bestow by voluntary and individual
199 18| and to be corrupted. Still better is the condition of those
200 26| thought becoming for women to bewail, for men to remember, the
201 11| simultaneously or as they are bidden, but two or three days are
202 7| punishment, or at the general's bidding, but, as it were, by the
203 19| as even more sacred and binding, and prefer it in receiving
204 10| notes and the flight of birds. It is peculiar to this
205 42| opportunity. Their shields are black, their bodies dyed. They
206 5| rainy on the side of Gaul, bleaker on that of Noricum and Pannonia.
207 30| valour. Over the spoiled and bleeding enemy they show their faces
208 25| and a name; the name and blessings of autumn are alike unknown.~
209 14| they might win by their blood.~
210 14| their war-horse and their blood-stained and victorious lance. Feasts
211 21| commonly with wounds and bloodshed. Yet it is at their feasts
212 4| population. All have fierce blue eyes, red hair, huge frames,
213 27| the name of their founder, blush to own their origin. Having
214 44| symbol the device of a wild boar. This serves as armour,
215 27| tribes of Gaul. The name Boiemum still survives, marking
216 24| slave or to punish him with bonds or with hard labour is a
217 45| of iron, are pointed with bone. The men and the women are
218 32| fortune can give no greater boon than discord among our foes.~
219 3| inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhætia. These
220 45| Sarmatæ. The Veneti have borrowed largely from the Sarmatian
221 16| the nearest part of the bosom is also exposed.~
222 8| with earnest entreaties and bosoms laid bare, have vividly
223 10| lots is simple. A little bough is lopped off a fruit-bearing
224 45| a covering of interlaced boughs. Such are the homes of the
225 28| beyond the Rhine and the old boundaries. Thus this nation, whose
226 31| channel, and serves as a boundary, dwell the Usipii and Tencteri.
227 33| Angrivarii and Chamavi are bounded in the rear by the Dulgubini
228 2| emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile
229 14| only pay. The means of this bounty come from war and rapine.
230 11| they are satisfied, they brandish their spears. The most complimentary
231 14| him, to ascribe one's own brave deeds to his renown, is
232 7| sacred witnesses of his bravery -- they are his most generous
233 15| with a clay so clear and bright that it resembles painting,
234 44| on till sunrise, with a brightness sufficient to dim the light
235 11| appointments. Night they regard as bringing on day. Their freedom has
236 5| appearance yet generally either bristles with forests or reeks with
237 44| language is more like the British. They worship the mother
238 1| ocean girds it, embracing broad peninsulas and islands of
239 32| came, in former days, the Bructeri; but the general account
240 15| they do not know how to build. No use is made by them
241 45| field-labour, toiling at building, and poising the fortunes
242 28| tax-gatherer. Free from the usual burdens and contributions, and set
243 26| simply observe the custom of burning the bodies of illustrious
244 44| amber by applying fire, it burns like pinewood, and sends
245 22| dwellers on the river-bank also buy wine. Their food is of a
246 36| invader in the consulship of Cæcilius Metellus and Papirius Carbo,
247 36| Scaurus Aurelius, Servilius Cæpio, and Marcus Manlius, deprived
248 36| after, the mighty menaces of Caius Cæsar were turned into a
249 36| they stormed the winter camp of our legions, and even
250 29| battle, the Chatti to a campaign. Seldom do they engage in
251 40| display only our arms and our camps, to them we have thrown
252 6| a hundred from each canton; and from this they take
253 17| herself with, but oxen, a caparisoned steed, a shield, a lance,
254 12| accusation may be preferred or a capital crime prosecuted. Penalties
255 8| represented the horrors of captivity, which the Germans fear
256 5| ever made a search? They care but little to possess or
257 15| buildings they stain more carefully with a clay so clear and
258 16| the Rhine and Danube in a careless fashion, those of the interior
259 10| certain marks, and thrown carelessly and at random over a white
260 36| sides. Neither Samnite nor Carthaginian, neither Spain nor Gaul,
261 26| the dead man and in some cases his horse are consigned
262 36| making prisoners of Carbo, Cassius, Scaurus Aurelius, Servilius
263 42| described in Roman language as Castor and Pollux. Such, indeed,
264 29| engage in mere raids and casual encounters. It is indeed
265 44| discovered what natural cause or process produces it.
266 15| to dig out subterranean caves, and pile on them great
267 36| in recent times we have celebrated triumphs rather than won
268 9| consistent with the grandeur of celestial beings to confine the gods
269 17| she is reminded by the ceremony which inaugurates marriage
270 44| motionless, which, we may certainly infer, girdles and surrounds
271 38| enters it except bound with a chain, as an inferior acknowledging
272 14| the year's produce as to challenge an enemy and earn the honour
273 27| the population has been changed. Whether however the Aravisci
274 31| which has now a well-defined channel, and serves as a boundary,
275 1| way at last through six channels into the Pontus; a seventh
276 30| German tribes, and simply characteristic of individual prowess, has
277 20| hesitation. They are greatly charmed with gifts, but they expect
278 18| whole village. The loss of chastity meets with no indulgence;
279 33| rear by the Dulgubini and Chasuarii, and other tribes not equally
280 29| note their opportunities, check their impulses, portion
281 35| Chatti, the Cherusci long cherished, unassailed, an excessive
282 5| presented to their envoys and chieftains, held as cheap as those
283 19| there any advantages in childlessness.~
284 12| has a hundred associates chosen from the people, who support
285 36| bordering on the ocean dwell the Cimbri, a now insignificant tribe,
286 36| when we first heard of the Cimbrian invader in the consulship
287 36| vast extent, and by their circuit you may even now measure
288 15| nations of Germany have no cities, and that they do not even
289 43| either a nobleman, a freeborn citizen, or even a freedman, at
290 36| of our discords and the civil war, they stormed the winter
291 30| peace do they assume a more civilised aspect. They have no home
292 6| and being naked or lightly clad with a little cloak. There
293 43| restrictions, and with no uncertain claim to obedience. Arms are not
294 27| are even eager in their claims of a German origin, thinking
295 18| stimulant of feastings. Clandestine correspondence is equally
296 7| composed of families and clans. Close by them, too, are
297 16| which is fastened with a clasp, or, if this is not forthcoming,
298 45| in doubt whether I should class them with the Germans or
299 15| carefully with a clay so clear and bright that it resembles
300 29| native Chatti. Hardy frames, close-knit limbs, fierce countenances,
301 44| enemies. They often use clubs, iron weapons but seldom.
302 17| 18. Their marriage code, however, is strict, and
303 15| resembles painting, or a coloured design. They are wont also
304 6| marked with very choice colours. A few only have corslets,
305 10| of their own tribe, each combatant using the weapons of their
306 7| and encouragement to the combatants.~
307 15| buried in sloth, a strange combination in their nature that the
308 34| takes a vast sweep. First comes the tribe of the Chauci,
309 11| because he has power to command. If his sentiments displease
310 5| gold and silver for their commercial utility, and are familiar
311 5| practice of the barter of commodities. They like the old and well-known
312 13| afterwards as a member of the commonwealth. Very noble birth or great
313 6| wheel to the right in such a compact body that none is left behind
314 20| host becomes the guide and companion to further hospitality,
315 41| Germany, so far as it is completed by the Danube. The Marcomanni
316 15| which, while accepted as a compliment, supplies their wants. They
317 11| brandish their spears. The most complimentary form of assent is to express
318 7| fortuitous gathering, are composed of families and clans. Close
319 44| shores. If you test the composition of amber by applying fire,
320 25| interest and increasing it by compound interest they know nothing, --
321 39| terror and a pious ignorance concerning the nature of that which
322 18| corrupted. Still better is the condition of those states in which
323 9| grandeur of celestial beings to confine the gods within walls, or
324 10| if they sanction it, the confirmation of augury is still required.
325 42| into the foe, who can never confront their strange and almost
326 3| chiefly at a harsh note and a confused roar, putting their shields
327 2| Some, with the freedom of conjecture permitted by antiquity,
328 15| fashion, with the buildings connected and joined together, but
329 37| tribes, either from some connection with the Suevic race, or,
330 19| has, the more numerous his connections, the more honoured is his
331 36| So long have we been in conquering Germany. In the space of
332 2| name of Germans, which the conquerors had first employed to inspire
333 36| legions, and even designed the conquest of Gaul. Again were they
334 36| triumphs rather than won conquests over them.~
335 9| human countenance. They consecrate woods and groves, and they
336 6| return to the attack, is considered prudence rather than cowardice.
337 26| some cases his horse are consigned to the fire. A turf mound
338 9| however, do not consider it consistent with the grandeur of celestial
339 22| food is of a simple kind, consisting of wild-fruit, fresh game,
340 36| the Roman people of five consular armies, and they robbed
341 21| feasts that they generally consult on the reconciliation of
342 10| unfavourable, there is no further consultation that day about the matter;
343 10| familiar with the practice of consulting the notes and the flight
344 44| frankincense and balsam exude, contain fruitful woods and groves;
345 17| among barbarians they are content with one wife, except a
346 15| not even tolerate closely contiguous dwellings. They live scattered
347 42| divided and cut in half by a continuous mountain-range, beyond which
348 39| To the Langobardi, on the contrary, their scanty numbers are
349 45| thus presenting a complete contrast to the Sarmatæ, who live
350 15| voluntary and individual contribution on the chiefs a present
351 28| from the usual burdens and contributions, and set apart for fighting
352 5| of silver pieces is more convenient for use among dealers in
353 12| proportioned to them; he who is convicted, is fined in a certain number
354 20| are entertained with like cordiality. No one distinguishes between
355 36| 37. In the same remote corner of Germany, bordering on
356 18| of feastings. Clandestine correspondence is equally unknown to men
357 18| they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted. Still
358 18| fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted. Still better is the condition
359 6| colours. A few only have corslets, and just one or two here
360 8| they do not despise their counsels, or make light of their
361 9| to the form of any human countenance. They consecrate woods and
362 29| close-knit limbs, fierce countenances, and a peculiarly vigorous
363 7| wife, who shrink not from counting or even demanding them and
364 44| think that the islands and countries of the West, like the remote
365 40| thrown open our houses and country-seats, which they do not covet.
366 6| take their name among their countrymen, so that what was originally
367 31| to the most warlike and courageous.~
368 40| Hermunduri (I shall follow the course of the Danube as I did before
369 13| followers, for such a man is courted by embassies, is honoured
370 39| it a consecrated chariot, covered over with a garment. Only
371 45| beasts and storms but a covering of interlaced boughs. Such
372 40| country-seats, which they do not covet. It is in their lands that
373 6| considered prudence rather than cowardice. The bodies of their slain
374 35| and just, are now called cowards and fools, while in the
375 36| with but the slaughter of Crassus, when it has itself lost
376 38| rise to his feet; he must crawl out along the ground. All
377 7| the shrieks of women, the cries of infants. They are to
378 6| shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced
379 34| and robbery. Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and
380 36| itself lost Pacorus, and been crushed under a Ventidius? But Germans,
381 3| articulate sound, as a general cry of valour. They aim chiefly
382 18| wealth will procure the culprit a husband. No one in Germany
383 44| They are more patient in cultivating corn and other produce than
384 28| among the German tribes the cultivators of the tithe-lands, although
385 21| either natural or acquired cunning, they disclose their hidden
386 22| wild-fruit, fresh game, and curdled milk. They satisfy their
387 27| language, institutions, and customs, is a doubtful matter; for
388 1| it from the Sarmatæ and Daci. Elsewhere ocean girds it,
389 23| practise the sport bound in the dance amid swords and lances that
390 17| husband's partner in toil and danger, destined to suffer and
391 20| the state, since feuds are dangerous in proportion to a people'
392 17| destined to suffer and to dare with him alike both in peace
393 42| bodies dyed. They choose dark nights for battle, and,
394 17| depreciated, what future daughters-in-law may receive, and may be
395 5| convenient for use among dealers in cheap and common articles.~
396 34| their greatness by righteous dealing. Without ambition, without
397 7| by them, too, are those dearest to them, so that they hear
398 42| and gloomy aspect of their death-like host, strike terror into
399 45| becoming in some degree debased into a resemblance to the
400 35| neighbours. Where the strong hand decides, moderation and justice
401 11| Yet even when the final decision rests with the people, the
402 17| nor such as a bride would deck herself with, but oxen,
403 3| They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses, with the addition
404 9| and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice to
405 44| But they also search the deep, and are the only people
406 3| swell into a fuller and deeper sound. Ulysses, too, is
407 14| returned from the field. To defend, to protect him, to ascribe
408 42| Gotini, to complete their degradation, actually work iron mines.
409 45| they are becoming in some degree debased into a resemblance
410 8| flatteries, or with sham deification.~
411 39| festivity reigns wherever she deigns to go and be received. They
412 11| three days are wasted in the delays of assembling. When the
413 29| and timidity go together; deliberateness is more akin to steady courage.~
414 22| preparation and without delicacies. In quenching their thirst
415 19| brought up with greater delicacy. Both live amid the same
416 45| are always present, and demand a share of the prey. The
417 7| not from counting or even demanding them and who administer
418 43| multitude of armed men is easily demoralized. And indeed it is by no
419 34| not merely possessed, but densely peopled, by the Chauci,
420 20| It is usual to give the departing guest whatever he may ask
421 41| and power of the monarch depend on Roman influence. He is
422 13| are gradations of rank, dependent on the choice of the man
423 17| children neither tarnished nor depreciated, what future daughters-in-law
424 36| Cæpio, and Marcus Manlius, deprived the Roman people of five
425 21| own peculiar advantage is derived. They deliberate when they
426 2| that the god had several descendants, and the nation several
427 41| kings of their own nation, descended from the noble stock of
428 27| thinking that the glory of this descent distinguishes them from
429 42| it. But the deities are described in Roman language as Castor
430 12| the offence. Traitors and deserters are hanged on trees; the
431 15| painting, or a coloured design. They are wont also to dig
432 37| are called by the general designation of "Suevi." A national peculiarity
433 36| of our legions, and even designed the conquest of Gaul. Again
434 22| them with as much as they desire, they will be overcome by
435 18| beyond, no further-reaching desires, that they may love not
436 8| prescience, and they do not despise their counsels, or make
437 36| truly is fiercer than the despotism of an Arsaces. What else,
438 17| partner in toil and danger, destined to suffer and to dare with
439 32| each other; for while the destinies of empire hurry us on, fortune
440 18| of their children or to destroy any of their subsequent
441 44| as a religious symbol the device of a wild boar. This serves
442 30| that peculiar aspect which devotes and pledges them to valour.
443 15| design. They are wont also to dig out subterranean caves,
444 10| no people practise more diligently. The use of the lots is
445 44| brightness sufficient to dim the light of the stars.
446 11| Their freedom has this disadvantage, that they do not meet simultaneously
447 3| every one may believe or disbelieve them as he feels inclined.~
448 21| or acquired cunning, they disclose their hidden thoughts in
449 36| without loss to us were they discomfited by Marius in Italy, by the
450 32| give no greater boon than discord among our foes.~
451 36| until on the occasion of our discords and the civil war, they
452 11| affair is always thoroughly discussed by the chiefs. They assemble,
453 21| discovered and laid bare, the discussion is renewed on the following
454 6| crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred
455 21| day and night in drinking disgraces no one. Their quarrels,
456 26| and lamentations they soon dismiss; grief and sorrow but slowly.
457 11| command. If his sentiments displease them, they reject them with
458 43| Germans, at the general disposal, but are in the charge of
459 21| when they have no power to dissemble; they resolve when error
460 28| were forced by internal dissension to migrate to their present
461 6| hurling them to an immense distance, and being naked or lightly
462 6| circumstances, for close or distant conflict. As for the horse-soldier,
463 31| the more usual military distinctions, particularly excel in the
464 1| each feels for the other, divide it from the Sarmatæ and
465 10| 10. Augury and divination by lot no people practise
466 15| bravest and the most warlike doing nothing, and surrendering
467 24| our manner with distinct domestic duties assigned to them,
468 | done
469 39| which is seen only by men doomed to die. This branch indeed
470 45| Veneti, and Fenni, I am in doubt whether I should class them
471 17| The wife does not bring a dower to the husband, but the
472 35| identified with prudence. The downfall of the Cherusci brought
473 27| same attractions, the same drawbacks. The Treveri and Nervii
474 37| grey, affect the fashion of drawing back their unkempt locks,
475 33| bounded in the rear by the Dulgubini and Chasuarii, and other
476 15| pile on them great heaps of dung, as a shelter from winter
477 24| manner with distinct domestic duties assigned to them, but each
478 20| 21. It is a duty among them to adopt the
479 22| resemblance to wine. The dwellers on the river-bank also buy
480 31| along with the slaves, the dwelling-house, and the usual rights of
481 15| tolerate closely contiguous dwellings. They live scattered and
482 38| took its origin, that here dwells the supreme and all-ruling
483 42| are black, their bodies dyed. They choose dark nights
484 27| Treveri and Nervii are even eager in their claims of a German
485 14| to challenge an enemy and earn the honour of wounds. Nay,
486 27| the Ubii, though they have earned the distinction of being
487 8| rallied by women who, with earnest entreaties and bosoms laid
488 2| past, they celebrate an earth-born god, Tuisco, and his son
489 10| pure from the taint of earthly labour; these are yoked
490 44| point the Suevic sea, on its eastern shore, washes the tribes
491 27| uniform level of Gallic effeminacy. The Rhine bank itself is
492 40| in their lands that the Elbe takes its rise, a famous
493 31| go to the son, not to the eldest, as does the other property,
494 12| same councils they also elect the chief magistrates, who
495 16| of the interior with more elegance, as not obtaining other
496 11| distinction in war, or eloquence, is heard, more because
497 13| such a man is courted by embassies, is honoured with presents,
498 28| Reckless adventurers from Gaul, emboldened by want, occupied this land
499 33| and their territory also embraces vast lakes which Roman fleets
500 1| Elsewhere ocean girds it, embracing broad peninsulas and islands