1Next to the Chatti, along the Rhine, which now has a settled channel and is sufficient to serve as a boundary, live the Usipi and Tencteri. 2The Tencteri, besides the usual glory of war, excel in the skill of horsemanship; 2nor is the fame of the infantry greater among the Chatti than that of the cavalry among the Tencteri. 3So their ancestors established, and their descendants follow suit. 3This is the play of children, this the rivalry of young men: the old men persevere in it. 4Horses are handed down along with the household, the hearth and the rights of succession: a son takes them over, not the eldest, as with everything else, but the one who is fiercest and best in war.
Tacitus · Germania
Germania 32
The Usipi and the Tencteri horsemen
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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.