The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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mean and inglorious, Agricola shall survive, represented and consigned to
future ages. FOOTNOTES A TREATISE ON THE SITUATION, MANNERS AND INHABITANTS OF GERMANY. [1] This treatise was written in the year of Rome 851, A.D. 98; during the fourth consulate of the emperor Nerva, and the third of Trajan. [2] The Germany here meant is that beyond the Rhine. The Germania Cisrhenana, divided into the Upper and Lower, was a part of Gallia Belgica. [3] Rhaetia comprehended the country of the Grisons, with part of Suabia and Bavaria. [4] Lower Hungary, and part of Austria. [5] The Carpathian mountains in Upper Hungary. [6] "Broad promontories." Latos sinus. Sinus strictly signifies "a bending," especially inwards. Hence it is applied to a gulf, or bay, of the sea. And hence, again, by metonymy, to that projecting part of the land, whereby the gulf is formed; and still further to any promontory or peninsula. It is in this latter force it is here used;--and refers |
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