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“Who, to say nothing about the perils of an awful and unknown sea, would have left Asia or Africa or Italy to look for Germany?” quote by Tacitus — Download Open image

““Who, to say nothing about the perils of an awful and unknown sea, would have left Asia or Africa or Italy to look for Germany?””

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