The Germanic tribesmen outside a Roman fort get naked and sled down the snowy hills with their shields!

>The barbarians, however, came on with such insolence and contempt of their enemies [**the Romans**], that to show their strength and courage, rather than out of any necessity, they went naked in the showers of snow, and through the ice and deep snow climbed up to the tops of the hills, and from thence, placing their broad shields under their bodies, let themselves slide from the precipices along their vast slippery descents. ________________________ **Source:** Plutarch, John Dryden, and Arthur Hugh Clough. "Caius Marius." *Plutarch's Lives*. New York: Modern Library, 2001. 564. Print.