April 25–Germany by Tacitus (98), translated by Thomas Gordon
Summary: Germany had a lot of tribes.
Commentary: I enjoyed his long rambly list of tribes at first, but it went on for awhile and I kind of lost interest. Literal pages! It starts off kind of neat in that RPG sourcebook kind of way I've mentioned a few times, but imagine if there were like 50 tribes of elves in yours sourcebook with one paragraph each. You'd probably get over it.
Better still do those communities, in which none but virgins marry, and where to a single marriage all their views and inclinations are at once confined. Thus, as they have but one body and one life, they take but one husband, that beyond him they may have no thought, no further wishes, nor love him only as their husband but as their marriage. To restrain generation and the increase of children, is esteemed an abominable sin, as also to kill infants newly born. And more powerful with them are good manners, than with other people are good laws.
V is for Virgins! I personally find it hard to believe no young Germans ever snuck off into the bushes or pulled out, but Tacitus says so.
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