1This part of the Suebi, indeed, stretches into the more remote regions of Germany: nearer, to follow the Danube now as I followed the Rhine a little before, is the state of the Hermunduri, loyal to the Romans; 1and for that reason they alone of the Germans trade not on the riverbank but deep inside, and in the most splendid colony of the province of Raetia. 2They cross everywhere without a guard; 2and while to other peoples we show only our arms and camps, to these we have thrown open our houses and country estates, and they do not covet them. 2Among the Hermunduri rises the Elbe, a river famous and once well known; 2now it is only heard of.
Tacitus · Germania
Germania 41
The Hermunduri, friends of Rome
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