A few only have corslets, and just one or two here and there a metal or leathern helmet. There is no display about their equipment: their shields alone are marked with very choice colours. As for the horse-soldier, he is satisfied with a shield and spear the foot-soldiers also scatter showers of missiles, each man having several and hurling them to an immense distance, and being naked or lightly clad with a little cloak. They carry a spear ( framea is their name for it), with a narrow and short head, but so sharp and easy to wield that the same weapon serves, according to circumstances, for close or distant conflict. Now the footnote number will be in the first line at the top of the browser window.Īfter reading this - you might want to read the second part of this book, Tacitus’ biography of his father-in-law Agricola, who conquered much of Britain for the Romans.įirst, though, brush up on your period characterizations of Romans and Barbarians with HERE.Even iron is not plentiful with them, as we infer from the character of their weapons. Then when you click on the note number there, you will leap back to the spot where you where. The text is very short and the translation is extremely readable even by today’s standards.Īs usual, when you click on a footnote number you will bounce down to the note. These comments throw a great deal of light on the text and are very interesting to boot. However, it doesn’t include the very detailed notes. This text is on the web, in part, elsewhere. As usual, how revised is unknown at present. This text is the Revised Oxford Translation.
It is one of our earliest records on the people who lived in that region of Europe. Cornelius Tacitus, one of the best historians of ancient Rome, wrote this Treatise on the Situation, Manners, and Inhabitants of Germany in the first century of the Christian era.
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