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... mentioned by Ptolemy as one of the great rivers of Germany , and as separating it from Sarmatia . Of the northern limits of the country no ancient writer or geographer had a distinct notion . All that was known was that there were vast ...
... mentioned by Ptolemy as one of the great rivers of Germany , and as separating it from Sarmatia . Of the northern limits of the country no ancient writer or geographer had a distinct notion . All that was known was that there were vast ...
Page xvii
... mentioned sources , is the only writer who gives us a picture of the life of the ancient Germans . He naturally falls from time to time into the errors incident to imperfect information ; his description of the localities of the various ...
... mentioned sources , is the only writer who gives us a picture of the life of the ancient Germans . He naturally falls from time to time into the errors incident to imperfect information ; his description of the localities of the various ...
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... , says that these campaigns led to the discovery of as many as twenty - three islands . The ablatives , ' cognitis ... regibus , ' define the locality of the sinus and insularum spatia just mentioned , and may be NOTES.
... , says that these campaigns led to the discovery of as many as twenty - three islands . The ablatives , ' cognitis ... regibus , ' define the locality of the sinus and insularum spatia just mentioned , and may be NOTES.
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... mentioned , and may be ren- dered , where have lately become known to us . ' 6 8. Quos bellum aperuit . ] Comp . Agr . 22 : Tertius ex- peditionum annus novas gentes aperuit . 9. Modico flexu . ] Meaning the bend which the Rhine makes ...
... mentioned , and may be ren- dered , where have lately become known to us . ' 6 8. Quos bellum aperuit . ] Comp . Agr . 22 : Tertius ex- peditionum annus novas gentes aperuit . 9. Modico flexu . ] Meaning the bend which the Rhine makes ...
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... mentioned . The name of the Marsi occurs Ann . I. 50 , in the account of the first campaign of Germanicus in Germany , and their territory , probably on both banks of the Ems , was the farthest limit to which the Roman arms advanced on ...
... mentioned . The name of the Marsi occurs Ann . I. 50 , in the account of the first campaign of Germanicus in Germany , and their territory , probably on both banks of the Ems , was the farthest limit to which the Roman arms advanced on ...
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