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GERMANY AND ITS TRIBES

Tacitus, Germany and its Tribes

Editions and translations: English | Latin
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Complete Works of Tacitus

TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN BY Alfred John Church AND William Jackson BrodribbEDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY Moses Hadas Random House, Inc. New York: Random House, Inc. 1942 [p. 709]

GERMANY AND ITS TRIBES

I. Germany is separated from the Galli, the Rhæti, and Pannonii, by the rivers Rhine and Danube; mountain ranges, or the fear which each feels for the other, divide it from the Sarmatæ 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 Rhætian 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.

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This text is based on the following book(s):
Complete Works of Tacitus. Tacitus. Alfred John Church. William Jackson Brodribb. Lisa Cerrato. edited for Perseus. New York: Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc. reprinted 1942.