THE ROMANS AND GERMANY.

Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 67, 27 August 1917, Page 1

THE ROMANS AND GERMANY.

The following historical extract provides interesting reading:—"Since tho expedition of Maximin, the Roman generals had confined their ambition to a defensive war against tho nations of Germany, who perpetually pressed" on the frontiers of the Empire. The more daring Probus pursued his Gallic victories, passed the Rhine, and displayed his invincible eagles on the banks of tho Elbe and the "Ncclcir. He was fully convinced that nothing could reconcile the minds of the barbarians to_ peace unless they experienced in their own country the calamities of war. 'He exacted a strict restitution of the effects and captives which they had carried away from the provinces, and he even entertained some thoughts of compelling tho Germans to relinquish the exercise of arms, and to trust their differences to the justice, their safety to the power, of Rome.