1Next to the Tencteri the Bructeri used to be met: now it is said that the Chamavi and Angrivarii have moved in, the Bructeri having been driven out and utterly destroyed by a coalition of the neighbouring tribes, whether from hatred of their arrogance or the sweetness of plunder or some favour of the gods towards us; 1for they did not even begrudge us the spectacle of the battle. 2More than sixty thousand fell, not to Roman arms and weapons, but, what is more splendid, for our delight and before our eyes. 2May there remain and endure among these peoples, I pray, if not love for us, at least hatred of one another, since, as the destiny of the empire presses on, fortune can now offer nothing greater than discord among our enemies.
Tacitus · Germania
Germania 33
The destruction of the Bructeri
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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.