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S. Mater Ecclesia Ravennas, vera mater, vera orthodoxa nam ceterae multae Ecclesiae falsam propter metum et terrores Principum superinduxere doctrinam; haec vero et veram et unicam Sanctam Catholicam tenuit Fidem, nunquam mutavit fluctuationem sustinuit, a tempestate quassata immobilis permansit. Holder-Egger. Such was the work achieved in the fortunate capital.
Personal appearance, cf. Decentior quam sublimior. Well proportioned, rather than tall. Nihil metus. Nothing to inspire fear in his countenance. Antith. to gratia supererat: kindness of expression rather prevailed. So Gr. and R. For this sense of metus, see note G. 2: ob metum. Medio aetatis. We should hardly say so of a man dying at 56. But in Dial. de Clar. Orat.
For mixti, cf. 4: locum mixtum. For copiis in this sense, 22: annuis copiis. For the other sense, viz. forces, 24: copiis, note. Hinc hinc==on this side on that. Cf. note G. 14: illum illam. Victus. Al. auctus. Ad manus et arma. Ang. to arms. Oppugnasse depends on fama. Their preparations were great. Castella adorti is the means by which they metum addiderant, i.e. had inspired additional fear.
Sci. vi. 3. 12, he says: 'Non invenias inter humanos affetum tam pusillum, qui si intendatur paullo vehementius, non mortis metum superet. See post, under Dec. 2, 1784. History may be formed from permanent monuments and records; but Lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost for ever.
The latter, however, is the more probable, cf. Ritter in loc. A people often bear quite different names abroad from that by which they call themselves at home. Latham. Vocarentur is subj. because it stands in a subordinate clause of the oratio obliqua, cf. Metum. Here taken in an active sense; oftener passive, but used in both senses.
Others have proposed a victorum metu, or a victo ob metum, or a victis ob metum. But these emendations are wholly conjectural and unnecessary. Guenther and Walch render a victore, from the victorious tribe, i.e. after the name of that tribe. But a se ipsis means by themselves; and the antithesis doubtless requires a to be understood in the same sense in both clauses.
From him we learn that Varro feared the entire collapse of the old faith; that he attributed its decline in some measure to the outward representations of divine objects; and, observing that Rome had existed 170 years without any image in her temples, instanced Judea to prove "eos qui primi simulacra deorum populis posuerunt, eos civitatibus suis et metum dempsisse, et errorem addidisse."
Although Tacitus did not actually know the origin of the name of the Germani, he said something which supports my opinion, when he observed that it was a name which inspired terror, taken or given ob metum. In fact it signifies a warrior: Heer, Hari is army, whence comes Hariban, or 'call to Haro', that is, a general order to be with the army, since corrupted into Arrièreban.
Ceterum Germaniae vocabulum recens et nuper additum; quoniam, qui primi Rhenum transgressi Gallos expulerint, ac nunc Tungri, tunc Germani vocati sint: ita nationis nomen, non gentis evaluisse paulatim, ut omnes primum a victore ob metum, mox a seipsis invento nomine Germani vocarentur. III. Fuisse apud eos et Herculem memorant, primumque omnium virorum fortium ituri in proelia canunt.
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