Note 408 — Chapter XV · - GENTES IN OTHER TRIBES OF THE HUMAN FAMILY.
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Germania, cap. 7. The line of battle, this author remarks, is formed by wedges. Acies per cuneos componitur.—Ger., c. 6. Kohlrausch observes that “the confederates of one mark or hundred, and of one race or sept, fought united.”—History of Germany, Appletons’ ed., trans. by J. D. Haas, p. 28.