Romans In Denmark.

[cmacq]

then we have: P CORNELI TACITI DE ORIGINE ET SITV GERMANORVM


[chapter 2]

Ipsos Germanos indigenas crediderim minimeque aliarum gentium adventibus et hospitiis mixtos, quia nec terra olim, sed classibus advehebantur qui mutare sedes quaerebant, et inmensus ultra utque sic dixerim adversus Oceanus raris ab orbe nostro navibus aditur. Quis porro, praeter periculum horridi et ignoti maris, Asia aut Africa aut Italia relicta Germaniam peteret, informem terris, asperam caelo, tristem cultu adspectuque, nisi si patria sit?

Rendering

The real German natives, are believed very little changed by tribal invasion and even hospitable mingling, as formerly not by land, those questing for a change of home were brought there by ships, which have but to sail beyond into a hostile Ocean, which is a region our ships rarely go. Formerly, who else would risk frightful and unknown seas, abandon Asia, Africa, or Italy to reach Germany, a hideous place of harsh climate, to see its gloomy manner, but those who were native to the region?


[Chapter 37]

Eundem Germaniae sinum proximi Oceano Cimbri tenent, parva nunc civitas, sed gloria ingens. Veterisque famae lata vestigia manent, utraque ripa castra ac spatia, quorum ambitu nunc quoque metiaris molem manusque gentis et tam magni exitus fidem.

Rendering

Near the ocean reside the Cimbri, in the same curved bay of Germany, now a small community, yet vast in past glory. In saying no, tradition's vestige holds permanency, for over a wide space in this far place, fortified encampments, now measured heaps disserted by this historic race, were so broadly abandoned, yet with honor.