07-08-2009, 04:39 AM
Was directed here from http://rambambashi.wordpress.com/common-errors/ who mentions this dicussiong about the Rhine and thought you all might like to know that there is another reference to this phenomenon in the XII Panegyrici Latini, VI.6.4:
‘Why the huge multitude of Germans from every nation, which, enticed by the freezing of the Rhine, had dared to cross over on foot to an island….’
1994 Nixon and Rodgers Translation – talking about the year AD 304. p. 226 n. 26.
‘Why the huge multitude of Germans from every nation, which, enticed by the freezing of the Rhine, had dared to cross over on foot to an island….’
1994 Nixon and Rodgers Translation – talking about the year AD 304. p. 226 n. 26.