Note 16 — II THE ROMANTIC SCHOOL IN GERMANY (continued 6)
Mary Morison translation
"They write their plans for liberating Germany in cipher, and send them to each other by messengers whom the Romans catch and hang; they meet in the dusk, they eat, they drink, and sleep, when night comes, with their wives.... The hope that Augustus may die to-morrow leads them to live on thus, covered with shame, from one week to another."