From: squilluncus
Message: 65436
Date: 2009-11-16
>Suionum hinc civitates ipso in Oceano praeter viros armaque classibus valent.
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> Tacitus, Germania, 44
> http://www.northvegr.org/lore/tacitus/005.php
> 'Beyond the Lygians dwell the Gothones, under the rule of a King;
> and thence held in subjection somewhat stricter than the other
> German nations, yet not so strict as to extinguish all their
> liberty.
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> To wealth also, amongst them, great veneration is paid, and thence a single ruler governs them, without all restriction of power, and exacting unlimited obedience. Neither here, as amongst other nations of Germany, are arms used indifferently by all, but shut up and warded under the care of a particular keeper, who in truth too is always a slave: since from all sudden invasions and attacks from their foes, the ocean protects them: besides that armed bands, when they are not employed, grow easily debauched and tumultuous. The truth is, it suits not the interest of an arbitrary Prince, to trust the care and power of arms either with a nobleman or with a freeman, or indeed with any man above the condition of a slave.'Lars
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