On the Antiquities of Prussia

...Vacini and Charini, whom he himself names Charionae, he adds, and indicates that they extended their borders as far as the Amaxobii. He shows, however, that fewer had settled by the Vistula. For he says that only the Finns, together with the Venedi and the Sulones, inhabited this coast. He does not deign to call these peoples by any other common name, perhaps because they were not a single people, nor did they unite into one name. But Cornelius Tacitus, investigating these places more diligently, ascribes them entirely to Germany, although he asserts that it is inhabited indiscriminately by both Sarmatian and German peoples. For he considers the Venedi to be counted among the Germans, because they build houses, carry shields, and delight in the use and speed of infantry. All of these things were different for the Sarmatians, who live only in wagons and on horses, and who had themselves derived from the customs of the Sarmatians the practice of infesting their neighbors with robbery. For whatever rises between the Peucini (whom indeed they have called the Bastarnae) in forests and mountains, they roamed through with robbery. Now the Peucini and the Bastarnae were, as Pliny testifies, bordering on the Daci, resembling the Germans in speech, dress, seat, and domicile, yet tainted by much of the foulness of the Sarmatians. For they also used promiscuous intermarriage. And their nobles were as slothful as the common people. Tacitus holds it in doubt whether they should be ascribed to the Sarmatians or to the Germans; but these places are today ascribed to Poland. Pliny, however, counts them among the Germans. To him, the Varini and the Gotthones are also Germans, of the stock of the Vindelici. But lastly... regionem