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of the Chauci^ The Istsevones^, who join up to the Ehine, 

 and to -^-hom the Cimbri^ belong, are the third race ; while 

 the Hermiones, forming a fourth, dwell in the interior, 

 and include the Suevi"*, the Hcrmunduri*, the Chatti*', and 



^ Also called Cauchi, Cauci, and Cayci, a German tribe to the east of 

 the Frisians, between the rivers Ems and Elbe. The modern Olden- 

 burg and Hanover are supposed to pretty nearly represent the country 

 of the Chauci. In B. xvi. c. 1. 2, will be found a further account of them 

 by PUny, -who had visited their countiT, at least that part of it which lay 

 on the sea-coast. They are mentioned for the last time in the third cen- 

 tury, when they had extended so far south and west that they are spoken 

 of as living on the banks of the Kliine. 



2 Mentioned by Tacitus as dweUing in the east and south of Grcrmany. 



3 It has been suggested by Titzius that the words " quorum Cunbri," 

 *' to whom the Cunbri belong," are an interpolation ; which is not un- 

 probable, or at least that the word "Cimbri" has been substituted for 

 some other name. 



* This a]:)pear3 to be properly the collective name of a great nvmaber of 

 the German tribes, who were of a migi-atory mode of hfe, and spoken of 

 in opposition to the more settled tribes, who went imder the general name 

 of Ingsevones. Cffisar speaks of them as dweUing east of the Ubii and 

 Sygambri, and west of the Cherusci. Strabo makes them extend in an 

 easterly direction beyond the Albis or Elbe, and southerly as far as tho 

 soiu-ces of the Danube. Tacitus gives the name of Suevia to the whole 

 of the east of Germany, from the Danube to the Baltic. The name of 

 the modem Suabia is derived from a body of adventurers from various 

 German tribes, who assimied the name of Suevi in consequence of their 

 not possessing any other appellation. 



^ A large and powerful tribe of Germany, which occupied the exten- 

 sive tract of country between the moimtains in the north-west of Bohe- 

 mia and the Roman Wall in the south-west, which formed the boundary 

 of the Agri Decumates. On the east they bordered on the Narisei, on 

 the north-east on the Cherusci, and on tlie north-west on the Chatti. 

 There is httle doubt that they originally formed part of the Suevi. At 

 a later period tliey spread in a north-easterly direction, taking possession 

 • of the north-western part of Bohemia and tlie country about tlie sources 

 of the Maine and Saale, that is, the }iart of Franeonia as far as Kissingen 

 and the south-western part of the kingdom of Saxony. The name ller- 

 munduri is tliought by some to signify higlilanders, and to be a com- 

 pound oi Her or Ar, "high," and Mund, "man." 



^ One of the great tribes of Germany, which rose to importance after 

 the decay of the power of the Cherusci, It is thouglit by ellmograjihers 

 that their name is stiU preserved in the word "Hessen." Tlu-y formed tho 

 chief tribe of the Hermiones liere mentioned, and are described by Cjrsar 

 as belonging to the Suevi, though Tacitus ilistinguishes them, and no 

 German tribe in fact occujjied more permanently its original loeahty than 

 the Chatti. Their original abode seems to have extended from the Wester- 



