The Germania, Agricola, And Dialogus De Oratoribus: With Explanatory Notes
The Germania, Agricola, And Dialogus De Oratoribus: With Explanatory Notes
Tacitus Cornelius
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since we have reached the limit of nature to the north, therefore let us now turn towards the east. Suebici ( =: Suevici) maris, i. e. the Baltic sea. 80. Habitus, the dress. 21. Matrem deum ( = deorum), i. c. interpretatioue Momanaj referring to Nerthus mentioned in chap. 40. 22. Insigpie superstitionis, as the symbol of their religions belief; or, of their superstition, from a Roman standpoint. Formas aprorum, as amulets, probably. 26. FuB* tium usuB, in their personal quarrels. Frumenta labo...rant. An instance of the tendency of Tacitus to condensation in expres- sion, by his forcing a verb usually intransitive into the activity and energy of a transitive verb. 28. Olesum is therefore an old German word, with a Latin ending; whence the German Glas, English glass; from the brightness of the amber. 42 1-9. Quae natura, so. sit ejus. 2. Batio, process. TSt barbaris = as they are barbarians; dative, in apposition with iis under- stood, which is dative of the agent with quaesitum (est). 3.
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