Germ. 37.1Eundem Germāniae sinum proximī Oceanō Cimbrī tenent, parva nunc cīvitās, sed glōria ingēns.The same projection of Germany, nearest the Ocean, is held by the Cimbri, now a small state, but immense in glory. Germ. 37.1Veterisque fāmae lāta vestīgia manent, utrāque rīpā castra ac spatia, quōrum ambitū nunc quoque mētiāris mōlem manūsque gentis et tam magnī exitūs fidem.And broad traces of their ancient fame remain, camps and grounds on either bank, by whose circuit you may even now measure the mass and the manpower of the nation and the truth of so great an exodus. Germ. 37.2Sescentēsimum et quadrāgēsimum annum urbs nostra agēbat, cum prīmum Cimbrōrum audīta sunt arma Caeciliō Metellō ac Papīriō Carbōne cōnsulibus.Our city was in its six hundred and fortieth year when the arms of the Cimbri were first heard of, in the consulship of Caecilius Metellus and Papirius Carbo. Germ. 37.2Ex quō sī ad alterum imperātōris Trāiānī cōnsulātum computēmus, ducentī ferme et decem annī colliguntur: tam diū Germānia vincitur.If we count from then to the second consulship of the emperor Trajan, about two hundred and ten years are reckoned: so long has Germany been in the conquering.
Germ. 37.3Mediō tam longī aevī spatiō multa in vicem damna.In the course of so long an age there have been many losses on each side. Germ. 37.3Nōn Samnīs, nōn Poenī, nōn Hispāniae Galliaeve, nē Parthī quidem saepius admonuēre: quippe regnō Arsacis ācrior est Germānōrum lībertās.Not the Samnite, not the Carthaginians, not Spain or Gaul, not even the Parthians have taught us more frequent lessons: for the freedom of the Germans is fiercer than the kingdom of Arsaces. Germ. 37.4Quid enim aliud nōbīs quam caedem Crassī, āmissō et ipse Pacorō, īnfrā Ventidium dēiectus Oriēns obiēcerit?For what else has the East to throw in our face but the slaughter of Crassus, the East which itself lost Pacorus and was laid low beneath a Ventidius? Germ. 37.5At Germānī Carbōne et Cassiō et Scaurō Aurēliō et Servīliō Caepiōne Maximōque Malliō fūsīs vel captīs quīnque simul cōnsulārēs exercitūs populō Rōmānō, Vārum trēsque cum eō legiōnēs etiam Caesarī abstulērunt;But the Germans, routing or capturing Carbo and Cassius and Scaurus Aurelius and Servilius Caepio and Maximus Mallius, took from the Roman people five consular armies together, and from Caesar too Varus and three legions with him; Germ. 37.5nec impūne C. Marius in Ītaliā, dīvus Iūlius in Galliā, Drūsus ac Nerō et Germānicus in suīs eōs sēdibus perculērunt: mox ingentēs C. Caesaris minae in lūdibrium versae.nor was it without cost that Gaius Marius struck them in Italy, the deified Julius in Gaul, and Drusus and Nero and Germanicus in their own homes: later the mighty threats of Gaius Caesar were turned into a mockery.
Germ. 37.6Inde ōtium, dōnec occāsiōne discordiae nostrae et cīvīlium armōrum expugnātīs legiōnum hībernīs etiam Galliās adfectāvēre, ac rūrsus pulsī;Then came quiet, until, seizing the chance of our discord and civil war, they stormed the winter quarters of the legions and even aimed at the Gauls, and were driven back again; Germ. 37.6nam proximīs temporibus triumphātī magis quam victī sunt.for in recent times they have been triumphed over rather than conquered.