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 Chap. 28.] ACCOUNT OP GOTJNTEIES, ETC. ^ 347 of the Chauci^ The Istsevones^, who join up to the Ehine, and to -^-hom the Cimbri^ belong, are the third race ; while the Hermiones, forming a fourth, dwell in the interior, and include the Suevi"*, the Hcrmunduri*, the Chatti*', and ^ Also called Cauchi, Cauci, and Cayci, a German 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 PUny, -who had visited their countiT, 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 living on the banks of the Kliine. 2 Mentioned by Tacitus as dweUing in the east and south of Grcrmany. 3 It has been suggested by Titzius that the words " quorum Cunbri," probable, or at least that the word "Cimbri" has been substituted for some other name. the German tribes, who were of a migi-atory mode of hfe, and spoken of in opposition to the more settled tribes, who went imder the general name of Ingsevones. Cffisar speaks of them as dweUing 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 tho soiu-ces 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 modem Suabia is derived from a body of adventurers from various German tribes, who assimied the name of Suevi in consequence of their not possessing any other appellation. ^ A large and powerful tribe of Germany, which occupied the exten- sive tract of country between the moimtains 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 Narisei, 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 }iart of Franeonia as far as Kissingen and the south-western part of the kingdom of Saxony. The name ller- munduri is tliought by some to signify higlilanders, and to be a com- pound oi Her or Ar, "high," and Mund, "man." ^ One of the great tribes of Germany, which rose to importance after the decay of the power of the Cherusci, It is thouglit by ellmograjihers that their name is stiU preserved in the word "Hessen." Tlu-y formed tho chief tribe of the Hermiones liere mentioned, and are described by Cjrsar as belonging to the Suevi, though Tacitus ilistinguishes them, and no German tribe in fact occujjied more permanently its original loeahty than the Chatti. Their original abode seems to have extended from the Wester-
 * ' to whom the Cunbri belong," are an interpolation ; which is not un-
 * This a]:)pear3 to be properly the collective name of a great nvmaber of