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Germania Tacitus's Germania is a thoroughly itemized ethnographic text detailing the geography, climate and social structure of Germany and its people. Unlike his Histories and Annales Tacitus doesn't offer a story line to be followed, but instead, he nudges forth an unspoken comparison to be made between two cultures. Each of the Germania's 46 passages deals with a particular area of German civilization among which Tacitus develops a two-tiered theme. The two points he tries to …

…nature of the Northern and Central German tribes he finally brings the book to an end by commenting on a tribe called the Sitones: a tribe ruled by a woman. One of Tacitus's last acerbic comments in the book pertains to this tribe as he says, "so low they have fallen not merely from freedom, but slavery itself". He then signs off with the quote, "All this is unauthenticated and I shall leave it open".