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  • The descendants of the Sicambri, the Burgundians, the

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • France; and yet all the learned are agreed that the Sicambri, the

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Sicambri, under one Clodovic, had before subjugated the whole earth, and given their names and their laws to Asia, seems to me to be inferring a great deal.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Rhine, there were hordes of Franks or Sicambri, who lived by pillage.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Still proving unfortunate, they obtained the lands of the Sicambri, who, in the reign of Augustus, were removed on this side the Rhine by Tiberius: these were the present counties of Berg, Mark, Lippe, and Waldeck; and the bishopric of Paderborn.

    The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus

  • Horace says to that emperor, _Te cæde gaudentes Sicambri compositis venerantur armis_.

    A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

  • Dacians, by cutting off three of their generals with vast armies, and drove the Germans beyond the river Elbe; removing two other tribes who submitted, the Ubii and Sicambri, into Gaul, and settling them in the country bordering on the Rhine.

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • Dacians, by cutting off three of their generals with vast armies, and drove the Germans beyond the river Elbe; removing two other tribes who submitted, the Ubii and Sicambri, into Gaul, and settling them in the country bordering on the Rhine.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • The Sugambri below are the same as the Sigambri or Sicambri in the neighborhood of the river Sieg.

    Cæsar Plutarch 1909

  • Sicambri, with two other German tribes, had crossed the Rhine, laid waste part of the Roman territory in Gaul, and inflicted so serious a blow on Lollius, the Roman legate, that Augustus himself repaired to

    Horace Theodore Martin 1862

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