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Cellars under ground were unknown to the Romans. See Beck. Gal., and Smith's Dict. Ant. Ignorantur fallunt. XVII. Sagum. A short, thick cloak, worn by Roman soldiers and countrymen. Fibula==figibula, any artificial fastening; spina==natural. Si desit. Observe the difference between this clause, and si quando advenit in the preceding chapter.
But referantur is the reading of all the MSS., and needs no emendation; and quae, with as good authority as que, makes the construction more natural and the sense more apposite. Referantur. In another writer, we might expect referant to correspond in construction and subject with accipiant. But Tacitus is fond of varying the construction. Cf. Boetticher's Lex Tac., and note, 16: ignorantur.
Autumni ignorantur. See Duebner in loc. Still such words as Haerfest, Herpist, Harfst, Herbst, in other Teutonic dialects, apply to the autumnal season, and not, like our word harvest, merely to the fruits of it. XXVII. Funera, proprie de toto apparatu sepulturae. E. Funeral rites were performed with great pomp and extravagance at Rome; cf. Fiske's Man., Sec. 340; see also Mur. in loco, and Beck.
Solent et subterraneos specus aperire, eosque multo insuper fimo onerant, suffugium hiemi et receptaculum frugibus: quia rigorem frigorum ejusmodi locis molliunt: et, si quando hostis advenit, aperta populatur, abdita autem et defossa aut ignorantur, aut eo ipso fallunt, quod quaerenda sunt.
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