of the Vistula, and towards the !hfi^herï'>Warfha. It would
appear from hisicööunt that Mé ëu^pesed-them rfot to ïeéiêh ,,
so'far as' tfienea-cdatsf: T r aW 'iB j^ ^ ©hth(^e>s#ëfnidtnr
.paulojam adöhotlüsqüam catefïe Ofem^r&fü'ih ^ h t ê ^ ib h -
dum iHüfi^faéh|)ra libertatem. Prötfrius dêidd^'é.b 'OcéöLTO-
Rögfi et Lemovii.” The Rugii, however;are-declared by PftJÖÖ-
pius to havé. been'a Gothic tribe.*'They*have'left thèir name
ïh RbghSiwald, to .the-wéstward^Öf Dantzig, and in* th é1 isle
of Rugen.'f Thus we' find tBè'Gothfe'in ■ the ^ e : ó f 5 Tétitus-
not far from the? position iji which Pytheas 'ptóééjcfthe Gut-
tonds; 1 Pliny gives' that'1 précise-patne-to^ aHfibe1 whom %e
classes with the Burgundians' among thjs^lVindiri'^bf' ii^ÉiÉös
of theüéóÉtët^! I t ap^éfer s that th^^laSt-mferrtïdned t^epWdïfe
j^l^iiMted l ^ the Vistülaj the Goths being^6h!thel^ëterif^i\lé
of that river. Such was the'position of thésè^kindréd nyt4$(fös
at thè éüd öf the first century. In the ^clSy^cerltu-ry1 "they
appear to have changed their abode^ - FtdFe'my, in ahlaBciMiè
enumeration Of the tribes-of Sarmatia and Eallffer#G'êrrifa^^
makökrdmention of Güttoüés é t GotHshh }hé rfei^er’nrifetOT,
though-among the nation^5 of leè&èï^dte who' inhabffed the
shOres’bf the Vistula to the fodthward of th e ‘Vëriedi, und^td-
wards the ^oUrces o f that river, two are ^mïhierEitëd,'^l^Mhe
Gythones and Phrugundiones, who may be suppo§0tf ^tS1 he
the same tribes, ot perhaps branchés''óf‘the 'same êtérnsf^;-
This'fs far toithe southward of the ph^óri^ii^inair^assigriêd
to the Guttoties.|[
The migration of the north-eastern tribes of Germany
towards the south had, perhaps, already' comméhcéd, ‘from
which effects so important were'dèétined to fèsulf. Theicfc-
Casional cause of tbesé hiöfement^ëan only bé conjectured.
It has Often been supposed that the commotions which ensued
on the wars of the Marcomanni gave the first impulse; The
Marcomanni were, as we have observed, a powerful and warlike
tribe, who under their chieftain Maroboduus gained possession
* Procop. Bell. Goth. in. 2.—WI' H ‘Poyoi 'offtbi i9 vó ( [iki/'flai TorOncöv, ai»
r é v o u o i r s .r b ir d X a iè v è 'ë iió v . See Zeuss, ubi supra, p. 488. Voigt’s Preussen, B. i.
+ Voigt, ubi supra. . $ Plïn. H. N. iv. 14. H
■ § Ptolem. Geog. Tab. Saftnatiae. -
- jj ‘Compare Cluver, Germ. Antiq. lib. iiff c. 34. Zeuss,,pp. 135, 302.
of, Bohemia-,, and, subdued^or brough&jmtb' their alliance ah the
Ueighbourings^fens. It appears', feona. expressions of Tacitus
aBds^trabo^whiiChvhave't^eeu^cb’mpared by Luden.and Voigt,
that, various German tribe«! eBteubd into thef,confederacy of Ma-
roboduus. - Strabo says that made, himself supreme chieftain
ppenthe Lugii^aigreat and num'etouS..people, and .the Zumi, the
B%tppcs|ifu\tathCP)the Gotobe^the 'M ugflohes and Sibini, and
th^vBlmnp^lf^a principal division-of the Siievi.* A, revolt at
le n g th t’opk .places and*! a warrio;rpdfi^fhevGothOnes' at the head
!of^he‘ rebellihgwfli'e£4ve:f turned mi® power of Maroboduus.
At this^ti^a^jwOll^’e' assured that numerous bands'1 from the
||Tor»th* force# themfeelfVess-»UpOn - thei^ihgdom of the Marco-
manpi^^In the time- ©f Domitian thewar offttlfe^Marcomanni
with Romans commenbClb ,jJSarmatia#,^By gian tribes^
RoxofUn.j'P%(3.0Stobo|t|s, and Ba!starnse' j;pine'd in hordes; in sup-
:St>rting^e.cWuse!,of the Marcoman4i. The ‘contest continued
.j®r,'te tf^ y ^ i| :’<>afterdts termination'* greUt-^hangfe'"’a'ppear .to
ah4ye|4^!lta‘fplace i'nffle-- local. position; o f many tribes. *?The
mfost important’Of these was, as M. YOigt ha/s*Tobserved, an
.-,a.dvanC0 ofMhe^Yenedi from <their '^©^ifiron- further eastward
into-«thes treicts previously^'|i^e^pied by tb e 'sGothones, who
f ^ p e a r - either, vto^haVe been d'r^wn. towards-the south in th e
warlike, ^moventents which acG6mpah-i'e'd,' th a t' contest, or' to
havetbeen driveri*out 0;f their cjountry by the Venedi';$ Ptolemy
Recognises no other inhabitants of the SeUrCoast, from the mouth
of the^i&t^la towards Samland’ and the'iRurisch-Haff, than
Yenedii Durin'^fhe ^am^pCriod we^dfsedver* various traees of
a !|p O’^emen t to wards ff herCast among the northern- tribes; In
the reiffn of Domitian Sue%ic hordes1 in alliance with Sarmatian
Jazyges passed the Danctbe,§ and> in the ’same direction we
find the-great body of the Gothic nation?;moving under the
kings whose exploits* &re recorded by Jornandes.
* Strabo, lib. vit. p. 290.
I «tfoctQvalis et Marcomannis cuticta'turbantibus, aliis eUam gebtibas quas
pulsae a stiperioribus gentibus, nisi reciperentitr, bellutn infarentibus,’’ (Gapitolin.
M. Arapm -Philos. c..,14.. Zeuss, u,bi-supra.)
$ The former suppositiOivji|jsupported by the fact that when the Wends and
Obotrites entered the country in the north of Germany, which thyy long possessed,
they found it,-according to Ilelmoldus their historian, destitute of inhabitants. (See
Helmold. Chron. Slavoriun.) ,
s \ § Sueton. Domit.—Voigt, lxiii.