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SUEVI

Volume 19 · 56 words · 1815 Edition

the Catti or Chatti of Caesar (Strabo), placed on the Rhine; the reason of Caesar's calling them thus does not appear, though considerably distant from the proper Suevi or Alemanni.

(Tacitus), a common name of the people situated between the Elbe and the Vistula, distinguished otherwise by particular names; as in Ptolemy, Suevi Angeli, Suevi Sennones.