_Fabuloso errore. Storied, celebrated in song_, cf. fabulosus Hydaspes. Hor. Od. 1, 227. Ulysses having _wandered westward_ gave plausibility to alleged traces of him in Gaul, Spain and Germany--_Asciburgium_. Now Asburg. _Quin etiam_, cf. notes, 13: _quin etiam_, and 14: _quin immo.--Ulixi_, i.e. ab Ulixe, cf. Ann. 15,41: Aedes statoris Jovis Romulo vota, i.e. by Romulus. This usage is especially frequent in the poets and the later prose writers, cf. H. 388, II. 3; Z. 419; and in T. above all others, cf. Böt. Lex. Tac. sub _Dativus_. Wr. and Rit. understand however an altar (or monument) consecrated to Ulysses, i.e. erected in honor of him by the citizens. _Adjecto_. Inscribed with the name of his father, as well as his own, i.e. [Greek: Laertiadae]. _Graecis litteris. Grecian characters_, cf. Caes. B.G. 1, 29: In castris _Helvetiorum_, tabulae repertae sunt _litteris Graecis_ confectae; and (6, 14): _Galli_ in publicis privatisque rationibus _Graecis utuntur litteris_. T. speaks (Ann. 11, 14) of alphabetic characters, as passing from Phenicia into Greece, and Strabo (4, 1) traces them from the Grecian colony at Marseilles, into Gaul, whence they doubtless passed into Germany, and even into Britain. IV. _Aliis aliarum_. The Greek and Latin are both fond of a repetition of different cases of the same word, even where one of them is redundant, e.g. [Greek: oioden oios] (Hom. II. 7, 39), and particularly in the words [Greek: allos] and _alius_. _Aliis_ is not however wholly redundant; but brings out more fully the idea: _no intermarriages, one with one nation, and another with another_. Walch and Ritter omit _aliis_, though it is found in all the MSS. _Infectos_. Things are said _infici_ and _imbui_, which are so penetrated and permeated by something else, that that something becomes a part of its nature or substance, as inficere colore, sanguine, veneno, animum virtutibus. It does not necessarily imply corruption or degeneracy. _Propriam--similem_. Three epithets not essentially different used for the sake of emphasis==_peculiar, pure, and sui-generis. Similis_ takes the gen., when it expresses, as here, an internal resemblance in character; otherwise the dat., cf. Z. 411, H. 391, 2. 4. _Habitus_. Form and features, external appearance. The physical features of the Germans as described by Tacitus, though still sufficient to distinguish them from the more southern European nations, have proved less permanent than their mental and social characteristics. _Idem omnibus_. Cf. Juv. 13, 164: _Caerula_ quis stupuit _Germani lumina? flavam Caesariem_, et madido torquentem cornua cirro? Nempe quod haec illis natura est _omnibus una_. _Magna corpora_. "Sidonius Apollinaris says, that, being in Germany and finding the men so very tall, he could not address verses of six feet to patrons who were seven feet high: Spernit senipedem stilum Thalia, Ex quo septipedes vidit patronos." Mur.