The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Author:Cornelius Tacitus General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1897 Original Publisher: David McKay Subjects: Germanic peoples Statesmen Germany History / General History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Rome Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or... more » missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 44. Next occur the communities of the Suiones,1 seated in the very Ocean,3 who, besides their strength in men and arms, also possess a naval force. The form of their vessels differs from ours in having a prow at each end,4 so that they are always ready to advance. They make no use of sails, nor have regular benches of oars at the sides: they row, as is practised in some rivers, without order, sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, as occasion requires. These people honor wealth ;' for which reason they are subject to 1 The Suiones inhabited Sweden, aud the Danish isles of Funen, Langland, Zeeland, Laland,« less