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Laeti neque procul Germani agitabant, dum iustitio
ob amissum Augustum, post discordiis attinemur. at Romanus agmine propero silvam Caesiam limitemque a Tiberio
coeptum scindit, castra in limite locat, frontem ac tergum
vallo, latera concaedibus munitus. inde saltus obscuros
permeat consultatque ex duobus itineribus breve et solitum
sequatur an inpeditius et intemptatum eoque hostibus incautum. delecta longiore via cetera adcelerantur: etenim
attulerant exploratores festam eam Germanis noctem ac sollemnibus epulis ludicram. Caecina cum expeditis cohortibus praeire et obstantia silvarum amoliri iubetur: legiones
modico intervallo sequuntur. iuvit nox sideribus inlustris,
ventumque ad vicos Marsorum et circumdatae stationes
stratis etiam tum per cubilia propterque mensas, nullo metu,
non antepositis vigiliis: adeo cuncta incuria disiecta erant
neque belli timor, ac ne pax quidem nisi languida et soluta
inter temulentos.
Annales ab excessu divi Augusti. Cornelius Tacitus. Charles Dennis Fisher. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1906.
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