Mercury is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on cert… - Tacitus

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Mercury is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice to him even with human victims.

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Publius Tacitus (or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus; c. 56–after 117 AD), Roman orator, lawyer, and senator. He is considered one of antiquity's greatest historians.

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Native Name: Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Alternative Names: Gaius Cornelius Tacitus • P. Cornelius Tacitus • C. Cornelius Tacitus • Cornelius Tacitus • Publius Cornelius Tacitus Caecina Paetus

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They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses, with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes, was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs with Greek inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhaetia.

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

...ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges.

Mercury is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice to him even with human victims. - Tacitus

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