{"date":"April 25","id":"04-25","intro":["Men who danced among sharp swords—who gambled with their lives—who took their women to the battlefields to encourage the brave and shame the cowardly—these were the primitive Germans who made Roman emperors tremble."],"minutes":30,"readings":[{"author":"Tacitus","end":120,"start":106,"volume":33,"work":"On Germany"}],"slug":"april-25","status":"proofread","title":"Mighty Rome Feared These Men","url":"/harvard-classics/april-25/","words":6087}