![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In every house the children grow up, thinly and meanly clad, to that bulk of body and limb which we behold with wonder. He confidently makes sweeping statements: All the Germans do this without exception they do that: which scholars have to validate or invalidate from the handful of other sources: Some of the Suevi also perform sacred rites to Isis. To Hercules and Mars they offer the animals usually allotted for sacrifice. Of the gods, Mercury is the principal object of their adoration whom, on certain days, they think it lawful to propitiate even with human victims. Tacitus most improbably claims the Germanic tribes worship the Roman gods: It is the usual mish-mash of hearsay, twaddle and detailed, real information β it is the task of scholars to disentangle the two. Before these, in 98, he wrote two short monographs, a eulogy to his father-in-law Agricola, and a study of the Germanic peoples beyond the border of the Roman Empire β De Origine et situ Germanorum or Concerning the Origin and Situation of the Germanics. ![]() Heβs famous for his full-length histories of the early Roman Empire β the Annals and the Histories. Cornelius Tacitus lived from around 54 to 120 AD. ![]()
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