{"date":"February 9","id":"02-09","intro":["Tacitus, the historian, visited the virile German tribes in their primitive homes on the banks of the Rhine. He was surprised to learn that the men so active and eager in war lolled in indolence during the intervals between."],"minutes":20,"readings":[{"author":"Tacitus","end":102,"start":93,"volume":33,"work":"On Germany"}],"slug":"february-9","status":"proofread","title":"Rest Between Wars","url":"/harvard-classics/february-9/","words":4052}