Germany and its Tribes By Tacitus
Translated by:
Alfred John Church William Jackson Brodribb New York: Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc. reprinted 1942
TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN BY Alfred John Church AND William Jackson Brodribb
EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY Moses Hadas
Random House, Inc.
New York: Random House, Inc.
1942
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GERMANY AND ITS TRIBES
Ch. 1
Germany is separated from the Galli, the Rhti, and Pannonii, by the rivers Rhine and Danube; mountain ranges, or the fear which each feels for the other, divide it from the Sarmat and Daci. Elsewhere ocean girds it, embracing broad peninsulas and islands of unexplored extent, where certain tribes and kingdoms are newly known to us, revealed by war. The Rhine springs from a precipitous and inaccessible height of the Rhtian Alps, bends slightly westward, and mingles with the Northern Ocean. The Danube pours down from the gradual and gently rising slope of Mount Abnoba, and visits many nations, to force its way at last through six channels into the Pontus; a seventh mouth is lost in marshes.
