Note 72 — Chapter II · THE MARK.
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He cites the passage from Caesar which I have quoted, and also Bell. Gall. iv. 1, which still applies only to the Suevi. His next evidence is the assertion of Tacitus just noticed. His third is from Plutarch’s Aemil. Paul. c. 12, of the Bastarnae: ἄνδρες οὐ γεωργεῖν εἰδότες, οὐ πλεῖν, οὐκ ἀπὸ ποιμνίων ζῆν νέμοντες, ἀλλ’ ἓν ἕργον καὶ μίαν τέχνην μελετῶντες, ἁεὶ μάχεσθαι καὶ κρατεῖν τῶν ἀντιταττομένων. A people without agriculture or commerce, and who live only on fighting, may be left undisturbed in the realm of dreams with which philosophers are conversant. Zeuss proceeds to reason upon the analogy of examples derived from notices of Britons, Kelts and Wends, in Strabo, Polybius and Dio Cassius. See p. 52, etc.