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here, fhe inliabitants of wliicli live on tlie eggs of birds 
and oats ; and otliers again upon which human beings 
are produced with the feet of horses, thence called Hippo- 
* pedes. Some other islands are also mentioned as those of 
the Panotii, the people of which have ears of such extra- 
ordinary size as to cover the rest of the body, which is 
otherwise left naked. 
Leaving these however, we come to the nation of the In- 
gaevones^ the first in Grermany ; at which we begin to have 
some information upon which more implicit reliance can be 
placed. In their country is an immense mountain called 
Sevo^, not less than those of the Riphsean range, and which 
forms an immense gulf along the shore as far as the Promon- 
tory of the Cimbri, This gulf, which has the name of the 
* Codanian,' is filled with islands ; the most famous among 
which is Scandinavia^, of a magnitude as yet unascertained : 
the only portion of it at all known is inhabited by the nation 
of the Hilleviones, v^ho dwell in 500 villages, and call it a 
second world: it is generally supposed that the island of 
Las it, the Panotii, "all-ears") wore their hair very short, from which 
circumstance their ears appeared to be of a larger size than usual. 
^ Tacitus speaks of three great groups of the Q-erman tribes, the In- 
gsevones forming the first thereof, and consisting of those which dwelt on 
the margin of the ocean, the Hermiones in the interior, and the Istaevones 
in the east and south of Grermany. We shall presently find that PHny 
adds two groups, the Yandili as the fourth, and the Peucini and Basternse 
as the fifth. This classification however is thought to originate in a mis- 
take, for Zeuss has satisfactorily shown that the Yandili belonged to the 
Hermiones, and that Peucini and Basternse are only names of individual 
tribes and not of groups of tribes. 
2 Brotier and other geographers are of opinion that by this name the 
chain of the Dofirefeld mountains is meant ; but this cannot be the case 
if we suppose with Parisot that PHny here returns south from the Scan- 
dinavian islands and takes his departure from Cape Rutt in the territory 
of the Ingsevones. Still, it is quite impossible to say what mountains he 
would designate under the name of Sevo. Parisot suggests that it is a form 
of the compound word " seevohner," " inhabitants of the sea," and that it 
is a general name for the elevated lands along the margin of the sea-shore. 
2 Parisot supposes that under this name the isle of Funen is meant, 
but it is more generally thought that Norway and Sweden are thus de- 
signated, as that peninsula was generally looked upon as an island by the 
ancients. The Codanian Grulf was the sea to the east of the CimlDrian 
Chersonesus or Jutland, filled with the islands which belong to the modern 
kingdom of Denmark. It was therefore the southern part of the Baltic, 
