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CIMBRI , a See also:

Teutonic tribe who made their first See also:appearance in See also:Roman See also:history in the See also:year 113 B.C., when they defeated the See also:consul Gnaeus Papirius See also:Carbo near Noreia in the See also:modern See also:Carinthia. It was the See also:common belief that they had been driven from their homes on the See also:North See also:Sea by inundations, but, whatever the cause of their See also:migration, they had been wandering along the See also:Danube for some years warring with the See also:Celtic tribes on either See also:bank. After the victory of 113 they passed westwards over the See also:Rhine, threatening the territory of the See also:Allobroges. Their See also:request for See also:land was not granted, and in 109 B.C. they defeated the consul See also:Marcus See also:Junius Silanus in See also:southern See also:Gaul, but did not at once follow up the victory. In 105 they returned to the attack under their See also:king Boiorix, and favoured by the dissensions of the Roman commanders Gnaeus Mallius See also:Maximus and See also:Caepio, defeated them in detail and annihilated their armies at Arausio (See also:Orange). Again the victorious Cimbri turned away from See also:Italy, and, after attempting to reduce the See also:Arverni, moved into See also:Spain, where they failed to overcome the desperate resistance of the Celtiberian tribes. In 103 they marched back through Gaul, which they overran as far as the See also:Seine, where the See also:Belgae made a stout resistance. Near See also:Rouen the Cimbri were reinforced by the See also:Teutoni and two cantons of the See also:Helvetii. Thereupon the See also:host marched southwards by two routes, the Cimbri moving on the See also:left towards the passes of the Eastern See also:Alps, while the newly arrived Teutoni and their See also:allies made for the western See also:gates of Italy. In 102 B.C. the Teutoni and Ambrones were totally defeated at See also:Aquae Sextiae by See also:Marius, while the Cimbri succeeded in passing the Alps and See also:driving Q. Lutatius See also:Catulus across the See also:Adige and Po. In rot Marius overthrew them on the Raudine See also:Plain near Vercellae.

Their king Boiorix was killed and the whole See also:

army destroyed. The Cimbri were the first in the See also:long See also:line of the Teutonic invaders of Italy. The See also:original See also:home of the Cimbri has been much disputed. It is recorded in the Monumentum Ancyranum that a Roman See also:fleet sailing eastwards from the mouth of the Rhine (c. A.D. 5) received at the farthest point reached the submission of a See also:people called Cimbri, who sent an See also:embassy to See also:Augustus. Several See also:early writers agree in saying that the Cimbri occupied a See also:peninsula, and in the See also:map of See also:Ptolemy See also:Jutland appears as the Cimbric See also:Chersonese. As Ptolemy seems to have regarded the See also:district See also:CIMON north of the Liimfjord (Limfjord) as a See also:group of islands, the territory of the Cimbri, the northernmost tribe of the peninsula, would be included in the modern See also:county (Amt) of See also:Aalborg. This was formerly called Himbersyssel or Himmerland, forms which may very well preserve their name, especially as the name Charydes, mentioned next to them in the Monumentum Ancyranum, appears to survive in the modern Hardeland. Possibly also the district across the Liimfjord formerly called Thythsyssel or Thyland may in the same way preserve the name of the Teutoni (q.v.). See also:Strabo and other early writers relate a number of curious facts concerning the customs of the Cimbri, which are of See also:great See also:interest as the earliest records of the manner of See also:life of the Teutonic nations. SouacEs.—Livy, See also:Epitome, lxvii., lxviii.; Monumentum Ancyranum; See also:Pomponius See also:Mela iii.

3; C. Plinius See also:

Secundus, Nat. Hist. iv. cap. 13 and 14, §§ 95 ff.; Strabo p. 292 ff.; See also:Plutarch, Marius. passim; See also:Florus iii. 3; Ptolemy ii. 11. 11 f. (F. G. M.

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