1I myself agree with the opinions of those who judge that the peoples of Germany, tainted by no intermarriage with other nations, have stood forth as a distinct and pure race, like only to itself. 2Hence too the physical appearance, even in so great a number of people, is the same for all: fierce blue eyes, reddish hair, large bodies, strong only for an assault. 3They have not the same endurance of toil and labour, and they are least able to bear thirst and heat, though to cold and hunger they have grown accustomed through their climate or their soil.
Tacitus · Germania
Germania 4
A pure race and its physique
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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.