geticum

Updated: July 25, 2026

Now the last remains went down, to the very feet, and the Romans believed that it foretold the end of the Amal dynasty. There was a Sibylline oracle too; 'Quintili mense Roma nihil Geticum metuet. Here, too, we find the last trace of heathenism, of that political mythology which had so inextricably interwoven itself with the life and history of the city.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge