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Monday, March 17, 2025
Mixed Marriages
Tacitus, Germania 46.1 (tr. Herbert W. Benario):
By mixed marriages they are getting to look like
the Sarmatians in their coarse appearance.
conubiis mixtis nonnihil in Sarmatarum habitum foedantur.
When and where I grew up, a mixed marriage was one between a Catholic and a Protestant.