[Footnote 7: Gens Germana feritate ferocior, says Velleius
Paterculus of the Lombards, (ii. 106.) Langobardos paucitas
nobilitat. Plurimis ac valentissimis nationibus cincti non
per obsequium, sed praeliis et perilitando, tuti sunt,
(Tacit. de Moribus German. c. 40.) See likewise Strabo, (l.
viii. p. 446.) The best geographers place them beyond the
Elbe, in the bishopric of Magdeburgh and the middle march of
Brandenburgh; and their situation will agree with the
patriotic remark of the count de Hertzberg, that most of the
Barbarian conquerors issued from the same countries which
still produce the armies of Prussia.
Note: See Malte Brun, vol. i. p 402. - M]