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are tlie Burgundiones^, the Yarini^, the Carini', and the 

 Gutones'*: the Ingaevones, forming a second race, a por- 

 tion of whom are the Cimbri*, the Teutoni**, and the tribes 



Eiesengebirge. They subsequently appeared in Dacia and Pannonia, and 

 in the beginning of the fifth century invaded Spain. Under Genseric they 

 passed over into Africa, and finally took and plundered Rome in a.d. 455. 

 Their kingdom was finally destroyed by Belisarius. 



1 It is supposed that the Burgundiones were a Gothic people dwelling 

 in the country between the rivers Viadus and Vistula, though Ammianus 

 Marcellinus declares them to have been of pure Roman origin. How 

 they came into the country of the Upper Maine in the south-west of 

 Germany ia a.d. 289, historians have found themselves at a loss to in- 

 form us. It is not improbable that the two peoples were not identical, 

 and that the similarity of their name arose only from the circxunstance that 

 they both resided in " burgi" or burghs. See Gibbon, iii. 99. Bohn's Ed. 



^ The Varini dwelt on the right bank of the Albis or Elbe, north of the 

 Langobardi. Ptolemy however, who seems to mention them as the Ava- 

 rini, speaks of them as dwelhng near the soiu-ces of the Vistula, on the 

 site of the present Cracow. See Gibbon, iv. 225. Bohn's Ed. 



s Nothing whatever is known of the locaUty of this people. 



* They are also called in history Gothi, Gothones, Gotones and Gut». 

 According to Pytheas of MarseiUes (as mentioned by Pliny, B. ixxvii. 

 c. 2), they dwelt on the coasts of the Baltic, in the vicinity of what is 

 now called the Fritsch-Haff. Tacitus also refers to the same district, 

 though he does not speak of them as inhabiting the coast. Ptolemy 

 again speaks of them as dwelling on the east of the Vistida, and to the 

 south of the Venedi. The later form of their name, Gothi, does not occur 

 till the time of Caracalla. Their native name was Gutthinda. They are 

 first spoken of as a powerful nation at the beginning of the third cen- 

 tury, when we find them mentioned as 'Getse,' from the circumstance of 

 their having occupied the countries formerly inhabited by the Sarmatian 

 Getse. The formidable attacks made by this people, divided into the 

 nations of the Ostrogoths and Visigoths, upon the Roman power during 

 its decline, are too well known to every reader of Gibbon to require 

 further notice. 



5 The inhabitants of Chersonesus Cimbrica, the modem peninsula of 

 Jutland. It seems doubtful whether these Cimbri were a Germanic na- 

 tion or a Celtic tribe, as also whether they were the same race whose 

 numerous hordes successively defeated six Roman armies, and were finally 

 conquered by C. Marius, B.C. 101, in the Campi Raudii. The more 

 general impression, however, entertained by historians, is that they were 

 a Celtic or GfiUic and not a Germanic nation. The name is said to have 

 signified "robbers." See Gibbon, i. 273, iii. 365. Bohn'sEd. 



6 The Teutoni or Teutones dwelt on the coasts of the Baltic, adjacent 

 to the territory of the Cimbri. Their name, though belonging originally 

 to a single nation or tribe, came to be afterwards appHed collectively to 

 the whole people of Gtennany. See Gibbon, iii. 139. BohrCs Ed. 



