 In their funerals there is no pomp; they simply observe the custom of burning the bodies of illustrious men with certain kinds of wood. They do not heap garments or spices on the funeral pile. The arms of the dead man and in some cases his horse are consigned...  Tacitus - Page 27by William Bodham Donne - 1873 - 194 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1868 - 180 pages
...autumn are alike unknown. Funeral rites. 27 In their funerals there is no pomp ; they simply observe the custom of burning the bodies of illustrious men with certain kinds of wood. They do not heap garments or spices on the funeral pile. The arms of the dead man, and in some cases... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1877 - 420 pages
...troublesome ; whereas the virtuous Germans, at least of the interior — for those on the eastern Ehine - bank were beginning to be civilised and corrupted...insignificant one. More instances of the contrasts between Eoman and Teutonic manners might be culled from the ' Germany.' In fact, when two extremes of civilisation... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1877 - 276 pages
...autumn are alike unknown. Funeral rites. In their funerals there is no pomp ; they simply observe CHAP. the custom of burning the bodies of illustrious men .with certain kinds of wood. They do not heap garments or spices on the funeral pile. The arms of the dead man and in some cases... | |
 | William Frederick Wakeman, John Cooke (M.A.) - 1903 - 444 pages
...people living in a land covered with woods and forests. Tacitus says that the Germans 'simply observe the custom of burning the bodies of illustrious men with certain kinds of wood. They do not heap garments or spice on the pyre. The arms of the dead man, and in some cases his horse,... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1913 - 296 pages
...also from the scandal of such a victory. . . . In their funerals there is no pomp; they simply observe the custom of burning the bodies of illustrious men with certain kinds of wood. They do not heap garments or spices on the funeral pile. The arms of the dead man, and in some cases... | |
 | Hutton Webster, Ph.d - 1913 - 316 pages
...also from the scandal of such a victory. . . . In their funerals there is no pomp; they simply observe the custom of burning the bodies of illustrious men with certain kinds of wood. They do not heap garments or spices on the funeral pile. The arms of the dead man, and in some cases... | |
 | William Ridgeway - 1931 - 708 pages
...already come into use2. Tacitus says that the Germans had no pomp in their funerals; "they simply observe the custom of burning the bodies of illustrious men with certain kinds of wood. They do not heap garments or spices on the funeral pyre. The arms of the dead man and in some cases... | |
 | William Ridgeway - 1931 - 708 pages
...already come into use'. Tacitus says that the Germans had no pomp in their funerals; "they simply observe the custom of burning the bodies of illustrious men with certain kinds of wood. They do not heap garments or spices on the funeral pyre. The arms of the dead man and in some cases... | |
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