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170.15.

deorum numero, etc. In this, Caesar's testimony is directly contradicted by Tacitus, who speaks (Ger. 9) of their worship of Mercury, Mars, and Hercules. This is almost the only contradiction hetween these writers, in whose accounts of political and other institutions there is a striking agreement. This is all the more remarkable when we bear in mind that Caesar went but little beyond the German frontier and had relatively little to do with them. This description of the Germans may be profitably compared with Caesar's account of the Suevi in the opening chapters of Bk. iv.


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