But the best MSS. and all the recent editions have erumpat: and Tacitus never uses the pres. ind. after donec, until, cf. Rup. & Rit. in loc.

The flexus here spoken of is called sinus in chap. 37, and describes the Cimbric Chersonesus, or Danish Peninsula. See Doed., Or. and Rit. in loc. Ac primo statim. And first immediately, sc. as we begin to trace the northern coast. Lateribus, sc. the eastern. Cf. note, His. 5, 21. Sinuetur, sc. southwards. Donec sinuetur. Cf. note, 1: erumpat. Inter Germanos.

In like manner, jugo, ridge, summit, is contrasted with vertice, peak, height, cf. Virg. Ecl. 9, 7: molli clivo; Ann. 17, 38: colles clementer assurgentes. The Rhaetian Alps, now the mountains of the Grisons. Alp is a Celtic word==hill. Albion has the same root==hilly country. Erumpat, al. erumpit.