Note 59 — Chapter II · THE MARK.
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“Colunt discreti ac diversi, ut fons, ut campus, ut nemus placuit. Vicos locant, non in nostrum morem, connexis et cohaerentibus aedificiis; suam quisque domum spatio circumdat.” Tac. Germ. 16. When Tacitus speaks of caverns dug in the earth, it is as granaries (which may to this day be seen in Hungary) or as places of refuge from sudden invasion.