_Otiosa--manus_. Al. _otiosae_ by conjecture. But _manus_, a collective noun sing. takes a pl. verb, cf. H. 461, 1; Z. 366. _Regia utilitas est_==regibus utile est. XLV. _Pigrum_. Cf. A. 10: pigrum et grave. The Northern or Frozen Ocean, of which T. seems to have heard, though some refer it to the northern part of the Baltic. See Ky. in loc. _Hinc_. _For this reason_, viz. _quod extremus_, etc. _In ortus_. _Till the risings_ (pl.) _of the sun_, i.e. from day to day successively. It was known in the age of T. that the longest day grew longer towards the north, till at length it became six months (cf. Plin. N.H. 2, 77), though T. supposed it to be thus long at a lower latitude than it really was, cf. A. 12. _Sonum--aspici_. The aurora borealis, some suppose. _Persuasio adjicit_. _The common belief adds_, i.e. _it is further believed_, cf. His. 5, 5. 13: persuasio inerat. _Illuc--natura_. _Tantum_ is to be connected with _illuc usque_. _Thus far only nature extends_. So thought the ancients. Cf. A. 33: _in ipso terrarum ac naturae fine_. _Et vera fama_ is parenthetic. The _author_ endorses this part of the story. _Ergo_ marks a return from the above digression. _Suevici maris_. _The Baltic_. _Aestyorum_==eastern men, modern Esthonians. Their language was probably neither German nor Briton, but Slavonic. _Matrem Deum_. Cybele, as the Romans interpreted it, cf. 43. _Insigne--gestant_. Worn, as _amulets_. _Frumenta laborant_, i.e. labor _for_, or _to produce_, corn. Cf. Hor. Epod. 5, 60. _Laborare_ is transitive only in poetry and post-Augustan prose. _Elaborare_ would imply too much art for the author's purpose. See Rit. in loc. _Succinum_. _Amber_, an important article of commerce in early ages, combining some vegetable juice (hence the Latin name, from _succus_) with some mineral ingredients.--_Glesum_. This name was transferred to _glass_, when it came into use. The root is German. Compare [Greek: chalaza.] Död. _Nec_==non tamen. _Yet it is not_, etc. _Ut barbaris_. Cf. ut inter barbaros, A. 11. _Barbaris_ is dative in apposition with _iis_, which is understood after _compertum_. _Quae--ratio_. _What power or process of nature_. _Donec--dedit_. Cf. note, 87: _affectavere_. _Plerumque_. _Often_; a limited sense of the word peculiar to post-Augustan Latin. Cf. G. 13: _ipsa plerumque fama bella profligant_; and Freund ad v. _Quae--expressa_==quorum _succus_ expressus, etc. _In tantum_. _To such a degree_. Frequent only in late Latin. _A servitute_. They fall short of liberty in not being free, like most of the Germans; and they fall below slavery itself, in that they are slaves to a woman. XLVI. _Venedorum et Fennorum_. Modern _Vends and Finns_, or Fen-men. Cf. Latham in loc.--_Ac torpor procerum_. _The chief men are lazy and stupid_, besides being filthy, like all the rest. _Foedantur_. Cf. infectos, 4.--_Habitum_, here personal appearance, cf. note, 17.--_Ex moribus_, sc. Sarmatarum.