Year: 1908
Type: article
Abstract: The Germans of Caesar ir.W E will now consider rather moro in detail the composition of the confederacy which Ariovistua led.Caeear thus enumerate* the tribes commanded by that chief in the order in which they were ranged in the battlefield : gencratimque constitutrunt Hantdet, MoTcomanoB, Tnbocot, Vangionet, Nemett$, Scdasiot . . .SUCCOB. 1 The Harades did not originally form a part of the confederacy.They arrived in Gaul Beparately.In the address of the Aeduan Divitiacus, reported by Caesar in chapter ixxi. of his first book, we are told : ptncis mengitms ante Harodnm milia hominnm xxir ad earn veniuent, qnibai looas %o aedea pararentur.In this passage, be it noted, the Harxides are not qualified as Germans, In chapter xxivii.we read again of them as acting quite Beparately : Aedai qoeetam qaod Huudot, qm naper in Gftliiun truuport&ij Msent, fines eomni popnlareotor.Here, again, they are not described as Germane, and are found acting independently of Ariovistua.It w*s later only that they joined his confederacy.We may leave them out of consideration therefore for the present-In regnrd to the Suevi, it would seem that theirs also was a contingent of foreignera which had joined the forces of Ariovistua.He had married a daughter of the Suevian king, and it was not 1 Comm.d» B. O. i. 61.VOL.XJUI -NO.XCII.8 6-• All righti roerr»d.
Source: The English Historical Review
Author: HENRY H. HOWORTH
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1984524192