"Whenever they are not fighting, they pass much of their time in the chase, and still more in idleness*, giving themselves up to sleep and to feasting, the bravest and the most warlike doing nothing, and surrendering the management of the household, of the home, and of the land, to the women, the old men, and all the weakest members of the family. They themselves lie buried in sloth, a strange combination in their nature that the same men should be so fond of idleness, so averse to peace."
(*ledigheid)
Tacitus, Germania.
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