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Tacitus: Germania

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Tacitus, an important Roman historian, wrote the most detailed early description of the Germans at then end of the first century CE.. In doing so, be warned, he was commenting on the Rome of his own time, as much as on the German themselves. The Inhabitants. 0rigins of the Name "Germany. " The Germans themselves, I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse.

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Description:	Medieval Sourcebook: Tacitus: Germania
	The National War-Songs.... They say that Hercules, too, once visited them; and when going into battle, they sing of him first of all heroes. They have also those songs of theirs, by the recital of which ("baritus," they call it), they rouse their courage, while from the note they augur the result of the approaching conflict. For, as their line shouts, they inspire or feel alarm. It is not so much an articulate sound, as a general cry of valor.
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