The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)Gibbon, Edward
History
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
Gibbon, Edward
Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527; Indexes; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Croatia, Bosnia, and Bulgaria. Schlozer, Nordische Geschichte, p.
323, 335. II. The Cimbric race. Adelung calls by this name all
who were not Suevi. This race had passed the Rhine, before the
time of Cæsar, occupied Belgium, and are the Belgæ of Cæsar and
Pliny. The Cimbrians also occupied the Isle of Jutland. The Cymri
of Wales and of Britain are of this race. Many tribes on the
right bank of the Rhine, the Guthini in Jutland, the Usipeti in
Westphalia, the Sigambri in the duchy of Berg, were German
Cimbrians. III. The Suevi, known in very early times by the
Romans, for they are mentioned by L. Corn. Sisenna, who lived 123
years before Christ, (Nonius v. Lancea.) This race, the real
Germans, extended to the Vistula, and from the Baltic to the
Hercynian forest. The name of Suevi was sometimes confined to a
single tribe, as by Cæsar to the Catti. The name of the Suevi has
been preserved in Suabia. These three were the principal races
which inhabited Germany; they moved from east to west, and are
the parent stem of the modern natives. But northern Europe,
according to Schlozer, was not peopled by them alone; other
races, of different origin, and speaking different languages,
have inhabited and left descendants in these countries. The
German tribes called themselves, from very remote times, by the
generic name of Teutons, (Teuten, Deutschen,) which Tacitus
derives from that of one of their gods, Tuisco. It appears more
probable that it means merely men, people. Many savage nations
have given themselves no other name. Thus the Laplanders call
themselves Almag, people; the Samoiedes Nilletz, Nissetsch, men,
&c. As to the name of Germans, (Germani,) Cæsar found it in use
in Gaul, and adopted it as a word already known to the Romans.
Many of the learned (from a passage of Tacitus, de Mor Germ. c.
2) have supposed that it was only applied to the Teutons after
Cæsar’s time; but Adelung has triumphantly refuted this opinion.
The name of Germans is found in the Fasti Capitolini. See Gruter,
Iscrip. 2899, in which the consul Marcellus, in the year of Rome
531, is said to have defeated the Gauls, the Insubrians, and the
Germans, commanded by Virdomar. See Adelung, Ælt. Geschichte der
Deutsch, p. 102.—Compressed from G.]
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