Write a paragraph analyzing the content and historical significance of one of the following passages. Think of this like an extended identification. Try to pick out one or two themes or elements that demonstrate the significance and refer to specific passages.
1. Ammianus Marcellinus, The History. No one in their country ever plows a field or touches a plow handle. They are all without fixed abode, without hearth, or law, or settled mode of life, and keep roaming from place to pace, like fugitives, accompanied by the wagons in which they live; in wagons their wives weave for them their hideous garments, in wagons they cohabit with their husbands, bear children, rear them to the age of puberty. None of their offspring, when asked, can ell you where he comes from, since he was conceived in one place, born far from there, and brought up still farther away. In truces they are faithless and unreliable, strongly inclined to sway to the motion of every breeze of new ope that presents itself, and sacrificing every feeling to the mad impulse of the moment.
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