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Reading Tacitus’ Germania Caput XXIX

07 Sunday Mar 2021

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Human Sacrifice among the Semnones

1687 Edition, Library of Naples

Into the forest, at a time appointed by auguries of the Fathers, and in ancient terror of the sacred, ambassadors of the people, both of their name and of their blood, assemble, and in the public hewing down of a man, they celebrate their barbarous rites, horrible and primordial.

Stato tempore in silvam auguriis patrum et prisca formidine sacram nominis eiusdemque sanguinis populi legationibus coeunt caesoque publice homine celebrant barbari ritus horrenda primordia.

Tacitus, On the Origin and Disposition of the Germans, XXXIX, 2.

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Reading Tacitus’ Germania

12 Friday Jul 2019

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Sword Leaping

Of spectacles [they have] but a singular kind and at every gathering the same: naked youths, for whom it is a sport, hurl themselves a-leaping, amidst swords and threatening spears. Training procures skill; skill, grace. It is not so much for profit or pay, however much the audacity of the sportsmanship, [rather] the reward is the satisfaction of the spectators.

Genus spectaculorum unum atque in omni coetu idem: nudi juvenes, quibus id ludicrum est, inter gladios se atque infestas frameas saltu iaciunt. exercitatio artem paravit, ars decorem, non in quaestum tamen est aut mercedem: quamvis audacis lasciviae pretium est voluptas spectantium.

Tacitus, On the Origin and Disposition of the Germans, XXIV,1-2.

Sword Dance of the Cutter’s Guild, coloured pen drawing by an unknown artist, 1600; in the German National Museum, Nürnberg.
Courtesy of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nurnberg

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Reading Tacitus’ Germania

24 Monday Jun 2019

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Feasts and Entertainments

No other race is so profusely kind in feasts and entertainments. To deny a mortal shelter is considered a sin among them, and each, according to his fortune, welcomes guests with the provision of sumptuous dishes.

Convictibus et hospitiis non alia gens effusius indulget. quemcumque mortalium arcere tecto nefas habetur; pro fortuna quisque apparatis epulis excipit.

Tacitus, On the Origin and Disposition of the Germans, XXI,2.

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