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caerulei oculi = "sky-coloured, azure, dark blue, dark green"),
reddish hair (
rutilae comae = "red, golden-red,
reddish yellow"), and
large bodies, vigorous...
- limbed,
which he
considered features of
Germanic origin: "The
reddish (
rutilae) hair and
large limbs of the
Caledonians proclaim a
German origin". Jordanes...
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Tacitus wrote that "the
Germans have
fierce blue eyes, red-blond hair (
rutilae comae), huge (tall) frames"; in
accordance with Ammi****,
almost all the...
