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Originally Posted by jeffmalone
i love germania
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Tacitus wrote in 98 AD:
"For the rest, they affirm
Germania to be a recent word, lately bestowed. For those who first passed the Rhine and expulsed the Gauls, and are now named Tungrians, were then called
Germani. And thus by degrees the name of a tribe prevailed, not that of the nation; so that by an appellation at first occasioned by fear and conquest, they afterwards chose to be distinguished, and assuming a name lately invented were universally called
Germani."
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