Note 24 — Chapter IV · A New Interpretation

Tacitus, Ann., II, 7. These were probably roads (Delbrück, Gesch. d. Kriegskunst, 2nd ed., p. 128 ff.). The use of “novis” indicates that such structures had been erected earlier. Their flimsy nature is to be inferred from the fact that the work had to be repeated in a few years, and the construction of Germanicus was doubtless no more lasting (see the preceding note).