Germania 42

Germ. 42.1Iūxtā Hermundūrōs Naristī ac deinde Marcomanī et Quadī agunt.Next to the Hermunduri live the Naristi, and then the Marcomani and Quadi. Germ. 42.1Praecipua Marcomanōrum glōria vīrēsque, atque ipsa etiam sēdēs pulsīs ōlim Boiīs virtūte parta.Pre-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. Germ. 42.1Nec Naristī Quādīve dēgenerant.Nor are the Naristi or the Quadi inferior to their forefathers. Germ. 42.1Eaque Germāniae velut frōns est, quātenus Dānubiō praecingitur.And this is, as it were, the front of Germany, as far as it is bordered by the Danube. Germ. 42.2Marcomanīs Quadīsque ūsque ad nostram memoriam rēgēs mānsērunt ex gente ipsōrum, nōbile Maroboduī et Tudrī genus (iam et externōs patiuntur), sed vīs et potentia rēgibus ex auctōritāte Rōmānā.The 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. Germ. 42.2Rārō armīs nostrīs, saepius pecūniā iuvantur, nec minus valent.They are rarely helped by our arms, more often by our money, and they are no less powerful for it.