Nec deformitate ista saltem flumina carebant, atque etiam Danubius ac Rhenus tantum illud nostri dedecoris vehere gaudebant, non minore cum pudore imper, quod haec Romanae aquilae, Romana signa, Romana denique ripa, quam quod hostium prospectaret, hostium quibus moris est eadem illa nunc rigentia gelu flumina aut campis superfusa, nunc liquida ac deferentia lustrare navigiis nandoque superare.
Rivers also witnessed this shameful travesty; the Danube and Rhine were delighted for their waters to play their part in our disgrace, and it was no less a blot on the empire for this to be seen by Roman eagles, Roman standards, and the Roman river-bank, than by the other side, the bank of the enemy'the enemy whose habit it was to navigate or swim across these same rivers, whether blocked with ice-floes or flooding the plains when ice is melted and passage is free.
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