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TEUTONI, or TEUTONES

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 673 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TEUTONI, or TEUTONES , a tribe of See also:northern See also:Europe, who became known to the See also:Romans in the See also:year 103 B.C., when, according to the See also:Epitome of See also:Livy, together with the Ambrones they reinforced the See also:Cimbri (q.v.) after their repulse from See also:Spain by the Celtiberi. In 102 the Teutoni and Ambrones were totally defeated by See also:Marius at See also:Aquae Sextiae (see MARIUS, See also:GAIUS). The racial See also:affinities of the Teutoni have formed a See also:matter of dispute amongst historians. Their name is See also:Celtic in See also:form, and many writers suppose that the Teutoni were really a Celtic tribe, a See also:branch of the See also:Helvetii. But a See also:people of this name seems to have been mentioned by the See also:early traveller See also:Pytheas as inhabiting the coasts of the northern ocean in his See also:time. See also:Strabo and Velleius, moreover, classify them as Germani, and this is perhaps the more probable view, although apparently the distinction between See also:Celt and Teuton was not clearly realized by some of the earlier historians. If the Teutoni really came from the same See also:quarter as the Cimbri, it is possible that their name may have been preserved in that of the See also:district called until recently Thyland or Thythsyssel in the extreme See also:north-See also:west of See also:Jutland. For authorities see CIMBRI; also See also:Pliny, See also:xxxvii. 35. (F. G. M.

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