On the Antiquities of Prussia

...sought in war by foreign nations. For they were hard-pressed, besides the arms of the Romans, and by the assault of the Saxons occupying England, from whom they defended themselves vigorously by land and sea. For these people, to say something in passing about their customs, had their own petty kings whom they obeyed, they cultivated fields, and they knew trade. The style of dress among them was that men used woolen tunics, and women linen, and they wore a ring of copper or orichalcum around their necks. They also hung earrings in their ears—a frivolous thing, which however has not ceased even today. They lived in houses built in the manner of farms and villages, and everything was without wall and rampart, which perhaps they learned from foreigners approaching them for the sake of trade, for it is otherwise alien to the Sarmatians. But to return to the Prussians: we said they entered into an alliance with the Sudini because of the fear of the neighboring Germans. Nor were they spurned by the Sudini. But aided by their power, they were made safer against any bordering peoples. For some time, they lived in their own filth, of which more hereafter. Now let us proceed with the rest of the matters related to Prussia. This land also produces wild beasts of many kinds, even those not known elsewhere. For besides bears, boars, and deer, in which it abounds, it produces aurochs of excellent strength and speed, which in the vastness of their bodies are little below an elephant, and of such ferocity that they spare neither man nor beast if they catch sight of one. And that animal is horned; the size of its horns...