places the Tencteri near the Sieg, and the Tubarites southward
further from the Rhine. All these three tribes seeiriO'to have
been absorbed into-the mass of »-people who lappear under thff
later name of Alemanni.* : 5. Ampsivarii, driven by the Ch^U-cf
from territories on the Lower Rhine, sought the refuge of many
other expelled tribes on the bank of the Rhine to the northward
of the Lippe.f They appear in later times, imeonj unction
with the Chatti, as forming a.considerable portion of thé
Franks. 6. Chamavi in earlier times occupied the same region,
as therUsipii and Tubantes placed by Tacitus,to th e southward
o f the Frisii; by Ptolemy in a later time,.joined with'the.
powerful tribe :of Cherusci in the country reaching toward#
the Hartz mountains. They were joined afterwards-to the
Franks. 7. Bructeri, divided into Greater and Less by the
river Ems, on the banks of which they,faye-plaeed;yby Tacitus
and by Ptolemy*!
13. Chatti and Ilermunduri, and the neighbouring -Tribes.
Tó the eastward of the Sigambri Csesar mentions only
■Suevi:[| The Suevi _of Csesar are ' :sbön' afterwards termed
Chatti and Hermunduri. Csesar describes an extensive desert
to the southward of the SueviT thence the old Celtic^nhabit-
ants had been expelled; this was the country settled b y fh n
Romans under the name of the AgrL Decumates. ' ^Bëyónjd
the latter Tacitus places the C h a t t i .T h e Chatti occupied an
extensive country of triangular form, one corner reaching to
Mount Taunus on the Rhine, one to the Upper Werra, and the
third below the Diemel.## The Mattiaciff #ere a small tribe
near Mount T a u n u s ,a t the “ Heissen Brunnen,” Hot Springs.
The Chattuarii, indicated by their name to be a section of the
Chatti, as well as the Batavi and Caninefates, who are declared
by T a c itu sü to have been descended from the same
people, inhabited, as it appears, the islands of the Rhine.
* Zeuss, p. 90. f Tacit. Ann. B. c. 55, 56.
X Tac. ibid. Germ. 34. __§ Ann. i. 60. Strabo, vii. p. 291. .
, J1 Be ll Gall. vi. 10. . Tacit. Germ. c. 30. ** Zeuss, p. 98»
f t Mattiacum, with a Celtic termination, was a name originating probably, as
Zeuss conjectures, with the neighbouring Celts, “ Mattiaci in Germania, fontes
calidi trans Rhenum.” (Plin. 31j' 21)
XX Plin. N, H. li. 2. §§ Tac. Hist. iv. 12.
They^yere driven .out:.gf the$)0^nfcry by the.Chatti. 2. The
und uri,ij)|)ey,ond & the-% Chatti, e^ténded from the Werra
toward^ the.Ea&t^l^yj\yeije placed,., by Tacitus at the souree
buf .th$t |Vfötér'Was^probably,nqt .well informed as
to the higher^ f f iBse^of -Elbe-*
The Ckêrusei' and 4>he nëighbour-iég tribes.
-The flheMscii;-a-re' menffèSJèÉ^by'Usélar aftidrigf the "chief
tribes of iGet'lJlab^#l'ei^Ma®ë-''Béihglfdtf^d^wi'th ftrdse of the
Rpnevi anA S igauibAfter*$hdRonfans had broken the pbwer'
,pf the latterj th es^ïièr asëtf i|^jde *an ^l^fi^eVbëistanbe stUéy
*deströy|^the*l?agibnk>f -Varus and withstood thé drms oföreiS
m aniens. They^defeated’ the- armys^Waroboduusp and1 the
frnevic confederacy united ■ under" thl#ieadÉrlt'd#MtêyiS-Mest!
the'Cherusci, as -head s-iofv^the» Sakon Confeidêr <ÈcyVppoadd:'
thomseliés-fto * the Franks a n d 1 Thurinlpams. '"The5■ territory
fe u p ie d by this great and powerful iation cannWfie/eka'ctly''
determin^d^yany extant^e^upt.'s,^A ^ ^ |^ ^ ^ itb a listatement
obtained from Ptolemy, they occupied th e i ^ pntriêlato the
north ward o f the Hartz fores^lpylpfh indate^fimes separated
thf,. Saxons from the T h u rin g ia^ -a s time
forest of Baeenis divided the ipherRsci^rb)n-th^^ue%.!,... The
Cherusci are mentione,4:;,together with th e neighbouring tribe
of jF o stL The Angrivarii inhabited botth.-sifcLeSiiof. th e Weserj
adjoining the~Cheru^ciiff The Langobardi,. had), according to
Pto&my, the Chauci cm'their, northern side, and reached least-*
ward( to the Elbe, to the southward of Hamburg, and towards
Saltz.we^el.** Velleius^ nearly ag re e s with. Ptolemy in his
account of the, position of the Lan go bards. He places them!
near the Chauei, and reaching toward^ thtoKlbe.-H. It seems^
from the narrative pf Tacitus, that the Langobardi were neighbours
of the Cherusci, whom they jpjfiëd in, the war against
M aroboduus, but they, wereifiomprehended in the great Suevian
* Germ. 41, -Zeuss, 104,
T Cherusci sociique eorym, vetfis^ Aftninii,miles, supypsere bellum in Marobo-
duum. .(Tac. Apprji, .4.5.) jj
X Ptolem. i^c. cit. * Zguss, 107- § Bell. Gall. vi. 10. "“’* » Tac. Germ. 36.
% Tac. Ann, ii., 8., , , ** Zeuss, 110.
++ Velleiu|ji> jj.. 106,, Rupt^Gh^u^jcum. nationes :-r—fracti Langobardi, gen«
etiam Germanê. feritate fe^opior; usque ad flunjen Albim Romanus cum signi$
perductus exercitus.
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