1Next to the Hermunduri live the Naristi, and then the Marcomani and Quadi. 1Pre-eminent are the glory and strength of the Marcomani, and their very homeland too was won by valour when they drove out the Boii long ago. 1Nor are the Naristi or the Quadi inferior to their forefathers. 1And this is, as it were, the front of Germany, as far as it is bordered by the Danube. 2The Marcomani and Quadi kept kings of their own race down to our own time, the noble house of Maroboduus and Tudrus (now they submit to foreigners too), but the force and power of their kings come from Roman authority. 2They are rarely helped by our arms, more often by our money, and they are no less powerful for it.
Tacitus · Germania
Germania 42
The Marcomani, Quadi and their kings
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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.