Germania 1

1Germany as a whole is separated from the Gauls, the Raetians and the Pannonians by the rivers Rhine and Danube, and from the Sarmatians and Dacians by mutual fear or by mountains: the rest the Ocean surrounds, embracing broad bays and islands of vast extent, where certain peoples and kings have lately become known, whom war has opened up. 2The Rhine, rising from an inaccessible and sheer summit of the Raetian Alps, turns west in a moderate bend and mingles with the northern Ocean. 3The Danube, pouring out from the gently and gradually rising ridge of Mount Abnoba, visits several peoples, until it bursts out into the Pontic Sea by six channels; 3a seventh mouth is swallowed up in marshes.