Cliap. 28.] ACCOUNT OF GOUNTEIES, ETC* ^ 847 
of the Chauci\ The Istsevones^, who join up to the Ehine, 
and to whom the Cimbri^ belong, are the third race ; while 
the Hermiones, forming a fourth, dwell in the interior, 
and include the Suevi'', the Hermunduri^, the Chatti^, and 
^ Also called Cauchi, Cauci, and Cayci, a Grerman 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 Phny, who had visited their country, 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. 
2 Mentioned by Tacitus as dweUing in the east and south of Grermany. 
3 It has been suggested by Titzius that the words " quorum Cimbri," 
to whom the Cimbri belong," are an mterpolation ; 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 Grerman tribes, who were of a migratory mode of life, and spoken of 
in opposition to the more settled tribes, who went under 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 modern Suabia is derived from a body of adventurers from various 
Grerman tribes, who assumed the name of Suevi in consequence of their 
not possessing any other appellation. 
^ A large and powerful tribe of Grermany, 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 httle 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 far 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 oilier or Ar^ "high," and Mund, "man." 
, ^ One of the great tribes of Grermany, 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 origiaal abode seems to have extended from the Wester- 
