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Tacitus, The Histories, Volumes I and II

Note 293 — BOOK IV

W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Fyfe translation

This was a German custom. We read in the Germania that in battle 'they keep their dearest close at hand, where the women's cries and the wailing of their babies can be heard'.

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