Tacitus on Germany is a short historical and ethnographic treatise by the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus. It describes the lands, peoples, customs and institutions of the Germanic tribes as seen from Rome. It is worth listening to as a concise early account of the peoples beyond the Rhine and Danube.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
TACITUS ON GERMANY Translated by Thomas Gordon PREPARER'S NOTE This text was prepared from a 1910 edition, published by P. F. Collier & Son Company, New York. Contents INTRODUCTORY NOTE The dates of the birth and death of Tacitus are uncertain, but it is probable that he was born about 54 A. D. and died after 117. He was a contemporary and friend of the younger Pliny, who addressed to him some of his most famous epistles. Tacitus was apparently of the equestrian class, was an advocate by training, and had a reputation
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