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Excerpt from The Germania and Agricola of Tacitus: With Notes I DO not think it an easy thing to write Notes to the Germania for the use Of schoolboys, because the main interest of the book arises from the ethnological discus sions springing out Of it. How numerous and important these are may be seen by any one who looks at the size of Dr. Latham's edition Of the work. In these ques tions, however, the younger students, for whose use this Edition is, by the very heading of the series, in tended, can hardly be supposed to feel much interest. And yet one can scarcely leave them out altogether. I have, therefore, endeavoured to exercise a wise dis cretion in the matter, hoping to say neither too much nor too little. I have also done my best to explain points in which I have found, in my experience, boys always have difficulties, or, at all events, are content to entertain vague and misty ideas. I have sometimes, therefore, spent many words, where a few only might seem necessary, and explained in the Notes matters for the elucidation of which I might have simply referred. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.