item: #1 of 6 id: 14809 author: Jordanes, active 6th century title: The Origin and Deeds of the Goths date: None words: 33427 flesch: 72 summary: [Sidenote: Attila and Bleda joint kings 433-445] [Sidenote: Attila sole king 445-453] XXXV Now this Attila was the son of Mundiuch, 180 and his brothers were Octar and Ruas who are said to have ruled before Attila, though not over quite so many tribes as he. [Sidenote: ALARIC I KING OF THE GOTHS 395-410] [Sidenote: Stilicho and Aurelian Consuls in 400] XXIX keywords: army; attila; battle; city; country; danube; death; emperor; empire; father; gepidae; goths; great; huns; island; king; kingdom; land; life; men; nations; ocean; people; place; race; river; roman; rule; sea; sidenote; son; theodoric; time; visigoths; war; way cache: 14809.txt plain text: 14809.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 2995 author: Tacitus, Cornelius title: Tacitus on Germany date: None words: 11518 flesch: 67 summary: For myself, I concur in opinion with such as suppose the people of Germany never to have mingled by inter-marriages with other nations, but to have remained a people pure, and independent, and resembling none but themselves. Moreover a custom, practised indeed in other nations of Germany, yet very rarely and confined only to particulars more daring than the rest, prevails amongst the Cattans by universal consent. keywords: arms; battle; cattans; country; germany; gods; men; nations; nay; number; ocean; people; rest; rhine; suevians; use; war cache: 2995.txt plain text: 2995.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 3821 author: Kingsley, Charles title: The Roman and the Teuton A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge date: None words: 98968 flesch: 70 summary: And yet he who will give us a science of great men, must begin by having a larger heart, a keener insight, a more varying human experience, than Shakespeare's own; while those who offer us a science of little men, and attempt to explain history and progress by laws drawn from the average of mankind, are utterly at sea the moment they come in contact with the very men whose actions make the history, to whose thought the progress is due. How women were captivated by his chivalry, older men by his genuine humility and sympathy! keywords: battle; blood; centuries; century; children; church; city; clergy; common; constantinople; country; course; day; days; death; dietrich; earth; east; emperor; empire; end; europe; evil; eyes; fact; father; force; forest; franks; german; god; good; gothic; goths; half; hand; having; head; heart; history; human; italy; king; land; laws; left; life; lombards; look; lord; man; men; mere; mind; moral; nations; new; noble; north; order; people; place; pope; power; race; right; roman; rome; round; save; saw; science; set; slaves; son; teuton; theodoric; things; thought; time; tribes; war; way; women; work; world; years; young cache: 3821.txt plain text: 3821.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 7524 author: Tacitus, Cornelius title: The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus date: None words: 49025 flesch: 68 summary: Of these, one so late as 1530 overwhelmed seventy-two villages; and another, still more terrible, in 1569, laid under water great part of the sea-coast of Holland, and almost all Friesland, in which alone 20,000 persons were drowned. He resigned himself to ease and tranquillity, was modest in his garb and equipage, affable in conversation, and in public was only accompanied by one or two of his friends; insomuch that the many, who are accustomed to form their ideas of great men from their retinue and figure, when they beheld Agricola, were apt to call in question his renown: few could interpret his conduct. keywords: account; age; agricola; arms; army; battle; britain; britons; caesar; country; day; death; domitian; emperor; empire; enemy; gall; general; germans; inhabitants; island; kind; law; life; manner; men; nations; nature; number; ocean; order; passage; people; person; place; pliny; power; present; province; public; rest; rhine; roman; rome; sea; state; suevi; tacitus; time; use; valor; victory; war; year cache: 7524.txt plain text: 7524.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 7959 author: Tacitus, Cornelius title: The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola date: None words: 105218 flesch: 53 summary: A misfortune which he neither bore with an ostentation of firmness and unconcern, like many other men of magnanimity, nor with lamentations and tears worthy only of women. He repaired them hastily, and despatched them to search the islands; and by this care many men were gleaned up; many were by the Angrivarians, our new subjects, redeemed from their maritime neighbours and restored; and some, driven into Great Britain, were sent back by the little British kings. keywords: age; agricola; agrippina; armies; arminius; arms; army; augustus; authority; battle; blood; body; britain; caesar; camp; children; city; country; day; death; drusus; emperor; empire; end; enemy; family; father; footnote; force; fortune; general; germanicus; germany; glory; gods; good; honour; house; laws; left; legions; liberty; life; livia; men; mighty; mother; nations; nay; night; people; piso; place; power; present; prince; province; public; rest; roman; rome; sea; sejanus; senate; soldiers; son; spirit; state; tacitus; things; tiberius; time; truth; war; wife; words; year; young cache: 7959.txt plain text: 7959.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 9090 author: Tacitus, Cornelius title: Germania and Agricola date: None words: 63955 flesch: 70 summary: _Acerbior_, cf. note on _durius_, But then _ne incresceret_ would be superfluous. keywords: abl; account; action; adhuc; adversus; age; agricola; ann; ante; apud; arma; armis; atque; aut; author; authority; b.g; battle; bello; bellum; britain; britanniae; britons; caes; caesar; case; cetera; chap; character; cic; clause; construction; corpora; country; cum; day; death; distinction; dom; donec; död; e.g.; eadem; editions; ejus; emperor; enemy; enim; erat; esse; est; etiam; exercitus; expression; fact; fama; form; freund; fuit; gaul; general; gens; gentis; germania; germans; gloria; gods; good; greek; gün; haec; hand; hic; histories; history; hoc; honor; hostium; idea; iii; insuper; inter; ipse; ipso; island; ita; jam; julius; language; latin; life; literature; loc; loco; manner; mare; means; men; military; minus; modern; modo; mox; mss; multum; nam; names; nations; nec; neque; nihil; nisi; nomen; non; northern; note; nulla; nunc; object; ocean; office; olim; partem; parts; passage; people; philosophy; place; pliny; post; power; present; pro; province; public; purpose; quae; quam; quanquam; qui; quia; quibus; quidem; quin; quisque; quod; quoque; quos; reading; reason; reference; regard; rhine; rit; ritter; roman; rome; sed; sense; sentence; sentiment; seu; sic; silver; simul; sine; statim; suam; subj; subject; suet; sunt; supply; tacitus; tamen; tanquam; tantum; terra; thing; time; trajan; treatise; tribes; ubi; ultra; understood; use; vel; velut; verb; virg; virtute; viz; war; way; word; work; writers cache: 9090.txt plain text: 9090.txt