_Credere quam scire_. T. perhaps alluded to the precept of the Philosopher, who said: Deum cole, atque crede, sed noli quaerere. Murphy. XXXV. _In Septentrionem_, etc. _On the North, it falls back_, sc. into the Ocean, _with_ an immense _bend_ or peninsula. The _flexus_ here spoken of is called _sinus_ in chap. 37, and describes the Cimbric Chersonesus, or Danish Peninsula. See Död., Or. and Rit. in loc.--_Ac primo statim. And first immediately_, sc. as we begin to trace the northern coast.--_Lateribus_, sc. the eastern. _Quanquam_ followed by the subj., seldom in Cic., but usually in T., Z. 574, Note. Cf. note, His. 5, 21.--_Sinuetur_, sc. southwards. _Donec--sinuetur_. Cf. note, 1: _erumpat_. _Inter Germanos_. Considered among the Germans, _in the estimation of the Germans_. _Quique--tueri_. A clause connected to an _adj_. (nobilissimus), cf. certum, quique, 32. _Qui_ in both passages==talis, ut. Hence followed by subj. H. 501, I.; Z. 558. _Impotentia, ungoverned passion, [Greek: akrateia]. Impotentia_ seldom denotes want of power, but usually that unrestrained passion, which results from the want of ability to control one's self. _Ut--agant_ depends on _assequuntur_. Subj. H. 490; Z. 531, _a_. _Si res poscat_. Some copies read: si res poscat _exercitus_. But posco and postulo seldom have the object expressed in such clauses, cf. 44: ut res poscit; 6: prout ratio poscit. So also Cic. and Sall., pass. _Exercitus_ is subject nom., _promptus_ being understood, as pred.; and _plurimum virorum equorumque_ explains or rather enforces _exercitus: and, if the case demand, an army, the greatest abundance of men and horses_. _Quiescentibus_, i.e. bellum non gerentibus; _eadem_, i.e. the same, as if engaged in war. XXXVI. _Cherusci_. It was their chief, Arminius (Germ. Hermann), who, making head against the Romans, was honored as the Deliverer of Germany, and celebrated in ballad songs, which are preserved to this day. See his achievements in Ann. B. 1, and 2. This tribe became afterwards the head of the Saxon confederacy. _Marcentem. Enervating_. So _marcentia pocula_, Stat. Silv. 4, 6, 56. It is usually intransitive, and is taken here by some in the sense of languid, enervate (literally withered).--_Illacessiti_ is a post-Augustan word. Cf. Freund. _Impotentes_. Cf. impotentia, 35. _Falso quiescas_. Falleris, dum quiescis. Dilthey. Cf. note, 14: _possis_. _Ubi manu agitur_. Where matters are decided by might rather than right. Cf. _manu agens_, A. 9. _Nomina superioris. Virtues_ (only) _of the stronger party_, the conqueror. They are deemed vices in the weaker. _Chattis--cessit: while to the Chatti_, who were _victorious, success was imputed for wisdom_. The antithetic particle at the beginning of the clause is omitted. Cf. note, 4: _minime_. _Fuissent_. Subj. after _cum_ signifying _although_. H. 516, II. XXXVII. _Sinum. Peninsula_, sc. the Cimbric. Cf. note, 35: _flexu_; 81: _sinus_.