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of the Chauci\ The IstaBvones', who join up to the Bhine, 

 and to whom the Cimbri^ belong, are the thu*d race ; while 

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

 and include the Suevi^, the Hermunduri*, 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 modem Olden- 

 burg and Hanover are supposed to pretty nearly represent the coimtry 

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

 by Pliny, who had visited their comitry, 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 hving on the banks of the Rhine. 



' Mentioned by Tacitus as dwelling in the eaat and south of Germany. 



8 It has been suggested by Titzius that the words " quorum Cimbri," 

 ** to whom the Cimbri belong," are an interpolation ; which is not im- 

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

 some other name. 



< This appears to be properly the collective name of a great number of 

 the German tribes, who were of a migratory mode of life, and spoken of 

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

 of Ingsevones. Csesar speaks of them as dwelling 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 the 

 sources 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 assumed 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 mountains 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 Narisci, on 

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

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

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

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

 of the Maine and Saale, that is, the part of Franconia as tar as Kissingen 

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

 munduri is thought by some to signify highlanders, 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 thought by ethnographers 

 that their name is still preserved in the word "Hessen." They formed the 

 chief tribe of the Hermiones here mentioned, and are described by Csesar 

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

 German tribe in fact occupied more permanently its original locahty than 

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



