846 
:pliny's NATTJEAL HISTOBT. [Book IT. 
are the Burgundiones^, tlie Varini^, the Carini^, and the 
G-utones^ : the Ingaevones, forming a second race, a por- 
tion of whom are the Cimbri'\ the Teutoni^, and the tribes 
Biesengebirge. They subsequently appeared in Dacia and Pannonia, and 
in the beginning of the fifth century invaded Spain. Under Grenseric they 
passed over into Africa, and finally took and plundered Rome in A.D. 455. 
Their kingdom v^^as finally destroyed by Behsarius. 
1 It is supposed that the Burgundiones vrere a Grothic people dwelling 
in the country between the rivers Yiadus and Yistula, though Ammianus 
Marcellinus declares them to have been of pure Boman origin. How 
they came into the country of the Upper Maine in the south-west of 
Grermany in 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 circumstance that 
they both resided in " burgi" or burghs. See Gibbon, iii. 99. JBoJin's ^d. 
2 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 dwelUng near the sources of the Yistula, on the 
Bite of the present Cracow. See Gribbon, iv. 225. BoJirCs JSd. 
3 Nothing whatever is known of the locality of this people. 
^ They are also called in history Grothi, Grothones, Grotones and Grutse. 
According to Pytheas of Marseilles (as mentioned by PHny, B.xxxvii. 
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 Yistula, and to the 
south of the Yenedi. The later form of their name, Gothi, does not occur 
tni the time of Caracalla. Their native name was Grutthinda. They are 
:^st spoken of as a powerful nation at the beginning of the third cen- 
tury, when we find them mentioned as ' Gretas,' 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 Yisigoths, upon the Boman power during 
its decline, are too well known to every reader of Gibbon to requh^e 
further notice. 
5 The inhabitants of Chersonesus Cimbrica, the modern 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 Boman armies, and were finally 
conquered by C. Marius, B.C. 101, in the Campi Baudii. The more 
general impression, however, entertained by historians, is that they were 
a Celtic or GaUic and not a Germanic nation. The name is said to have 
signified ''robbers." See Gibbon, i. 273, iii. 365. BoJin'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 applied collectively to 
the whole people of Germany. See Gibbon, iii. 139. BohrCs Ed^ 
