Tuesday, April 27, 2021

 

Things to Remember

Dio Cassius 56.18.2 (on the Germans, 9 A.D.; tr. Earnest Cary):
They had not, however, forgotten their ancestral habits, their native manners, their old life of independence, or the power derived from arms.

οὐ μέντοι καὶ τῶν πατρίων ἠθῶν τῶν τε συμφύτων τρόπων καὶ τῆς αὐτονόμου διαίτης τῆς τε ἐκ τῶν ὅπλων ἐξουσίας ἐκλελησμένοι ἦσαν.



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