The fourteenth chapter states that "to leave a battle alive after their chief has fallen means lifelong infamy and shame," a passage that has been compared to the Old English "Battle of Maldon.
The fourteenth chapter states that "to leave a battle alive after their chief has fallen means lifelong infamy and shame," a passage that has been compared to the Old English "Battle of Maldon." The nineteenth chapter claims that adultery is punished by flogging and the loss of the woman's hair. Veleda and Aurinia are held up as examples of women with divine authority, while kings are chosen "for their noble birth." Later discussion of the fate of the Cimbri is used to criticize the Parthian policy of the emperor Trajan, since "freedom is capable of more energetic action than the Arsacid despotism."  FTP, the moral corruption of Rome contrasts with the heroic virtue of the barbarians in this work by Tacitus.
The fourteenth chapter states that "to leave a battle alive after their chief has fallen means lifelong infamy and shame," a passage that has been compared to the Old English "Battle of Maldon.
Germania