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...Vansittart [TiME, July 16] conveniently "forgets" to take into account the fact that the "Germans" of whom Velleius Paterculus wrote were the people who lived in northern Europe in the land which then included not only present-day Germany but also the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, northeastern France, Austria and part of Czechoslovakia. These same "Germans" make up the Saxon element of the inhabitants of the British Isles, and it seems to me that the English must be not a little proud of their drop of Saxon blood since they constantly refer to themselves as "Anglo-Saxons...
...Lord Vansittart who wrote, but he was quoting not himself but Velleius Paterculus, a 1st-Century Roman historian. He added similar testimony from Tacitus, Seneca, Symmachus, Claudian, Nazarius, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ennodius, Quintilian and Josephus. This battery of authorities punctuates Vansittart's latest book on Germany: Bones of Contention (Knopf; $2.75), which was published in Britain last March and appears in the U.S. this week...
...Valorius Maximus, Velleius Paterculus and Quintus Curtns," Professor Rand, Sever...
...Valerius Maximus, Velleius Paterculus and Quintus Curtus," Professor Rand, Sever...
...meeting of the Classical Club will be held in the Assembly Room of the Union at 8 o'clock this evening. The whole of the first book of Velleius Paterculus, and the first eighteen chapters of the second book, will be read by members of the club with comment and discussion...
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