Laudator Temporis Acti

Tacitus, Germania 7.2 (tr. Herbert W. Benario):

And, what is a particular incitement to bravery, neither chance nor a miscellaneous grouping brings about the cavalry or infantry formation, but families and clans; and close by are their dear ones, whence are heard the wailings of women and the crying of children. These are each man's most sacred witnesses, these are his greatest supporters: it is to their mothers and to their wives that they bring their wounds; and the women do not quake to count or examine their gashes, and they furnish sustenance and encouragement to the fighters.

quodque praecipuum fortitudinis incitamentum est, non.casus nee fortuita conglobatio turmam aut cuneum facit, sed familiae et propinquitates; et in proximo pignora, unde feminarum ululatus audiri, unde vagitus infantium. hi cuique sanctissimi testes, hi maximi laudatores: ad matres, ad coniuges vulnera ferunt: nec illae numerare aut exigere plagas pavent, cibosque et hortamina pugnantibus gestant.

See Alexander Callander Murray, Germanic Kinship Structure: Studies in Law and Society in Antiquity and in the Early Middle Ages (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1983), pp. 53-56.