In that place where he speaks of his, passage over the Rhine to German… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

In that place where he speaks of his, passage over the Rhine to Germany, he says that, thinking it unworthy of the honour of the Roman people to waft over his army in vessels, he built a bridge that they might pass over dry-foot. There it was that he built that wonderful bridge of which he gives so particular a description; for he nowhere so willingly dwells upon his actions as in representing to us the subtlety of his inventions in such kind of handiwork.

Lugar: CHAPTER XXXIV · ¶3535
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