quidam, ut in licentia vetustatis, plures deo ortos pluresque gentis appellationes, Marsos Gambrivios Suebos Vandilios adfirmant, eaque vera et antiqua  nomina, 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 etiam a se ipsis invento nomine Germani vocarentur.
Some authorities, using the licence which pertains to antiquity, pronounce for more sons to the god and a larger number of race names, Marsi, Gambrivii, Suebi, Vandilii; these are, they say, real and ancient names, while the name of Germany is new and a recent application. The first tribes in fact to cross the Rhine and expel the Gauls, though now called Tungri, then bore the name Germans: so little by little the name'a tribal, not a national, name'prevailed, until the whole people were called by the artificial name of Germans, first only by the victorious tribe Tungri in order to intimidate the Gauls, but afterwards by themselves also.
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