GermanosnequepriorespopuloRomanobelluminferrenequetamenrecusare,silacessantur,quinarmiscontendant,quodGermanorumconsuetudo[haec]sitamaioribustradita,Quicumquebelluminferant,resisterenequedeprecari.Haectamendicerevenisseinvitos,eiectosdomo;
That the Germans neither make war upon the Roman people first, nor do they decline, if they are provoked, to engage with them in arms; for that this was the custom of the Germans handed down to them from their forefathers, -to resist whatsoever people make war upon them and not to avert it by entreaty; this, however, they confessed,-that they had come hither reluctantly, having been expelled from their country
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