1For drink they have a liquid made from barley or wheat, fermented into a certain likeness to wine; 1those nearest the riverbank also buy wine. 1Their food is simple, wild fruit, fresh game or curdled milk: without elaborate preparation, without delicacies, they drive away hunger. 1Against thirst they do not show the same restraint. 2If you indulge their drunkenness by supplying as much as they crave, they will be conquered no less easily by their vices than by arms.
Tacitus · Germania
Germania 23
Food and drink
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Tacitus, Germania. Latin text: H. Furneaux, Cornelii Taciti Opera Minora (Oxford, 1900), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.