Non numeraverim inter Germaniae populos, quamquam trans Rhenum Danuviumque consederint, eos qui decumates agros exercent: levissimus quisque Gallorum et inopia audax dubiae possessionis solum occupavere; mox limite acto promotisque praesidiis sinus imperii et pars provinciae habentur.
I should not count among the people of Germany, though they have established themselves beyond the Rhine and Danube, the tribes who cultivate the ten-lands. All the wastrels of Gaul, plucking courage from misery, took possession of that debatable land: latterly, since the frontier line has been driven and the garrisons pushed forward, these lands have been counted an outlying corner of the Empire and a part of a Roman province.
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