Tacitus: The Histories Part 39
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[539] These places cannot be certainly identified. They must have lain on the south of the Waal, probably east and west of Nymwegen.
[540] Across the now swollen Waal.
[541] See iv. 70.
[542] Which he had found on his way.
[543] Marching along the bank.
[544] Pitched on the left bank somewhere between Novaesium and Vetera. The German a.s.sailants were probably Tencteri.
[545] Dividing the different portions of the camp.
[546] Cp. iv. 61.
[547] Cp. ii. 16.
[548] See chap. 22 and iv. 16 and 79. But the s.h.i.+ps captured by Civilis were not small craft. Perhaps _luntres_ is here repeated from the preceding sentence by mistake for _naves_ or _puppes_.
[549] The de Noord channel carries the combined waters of the Maas and the Waal into the Lek a few miles above Rotterdam.
From the point of this confluence to the sea the Lek takes the name of Maas.
[550] Into the country of the Frisii up toward the Zuyder Zee.
[551] To make his party suspect that he was in league with the Romans.
[552] Cp. iv. 65.
[553] i.e. by betraying Civilis to them.
[554] Tacitus remarks in the _Germania_ (chap. 29) that the Batavi do not suffer the indignity of paying tribute, but, 'like armour and weapons are reserved for use in war.'
[555] Cp. iv. 13.
[556] Perhaps the Neue Yssel, near Arnhem.
[557] Cp. iv. 13, 32.
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