The Germania Agricola And Dialogus De Oratoribus of Tacitus
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Tamen, yet ; i. E. Although we cannot suppose the Germans to have borrowed the worship of the brothers Castor and Pollux, yet they do worship the Alci an brothers. Venerantur is transitive. 14. Super vires, besides their (military) strength. 15. Truces, grimly, as an adverb. Arte ac tempore, by art and time, as is immediately explained. 16. Lenociuantur, they pander to = they increase. 17. Ipsaque inferunt, and by the natural dread and spectral aspect of their ghostly army they inspire terror. ...Ipsa formidine, i. E. The very dread which the time and character GERMANIA. 171 Page of their attack inspire = the natural dread. Umbra exercitus, i. E. 40 a spectral host, dim and shadowy in outline, while feralis conveys the additional idea that the host has been reanimated from the tomb or returned from the realm of shades. The expression is highly imaginative and poetical. Compare Tennyson, Guinevere : "and more and more The moony vapor rolling round the King, Who seemed the phantom of a Giant in it, Enwound him fold by fold, and made him gray And grayer, till himself became as mist Before her, moving ghostlike to his doom.
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