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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Marcomanni.

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Marcomanni +‎ -ic

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  • In 168 the German campaign against the Marcomannic and Quadi tribes finally got under way, but in January 169 the further spread of plague forced Marcus and Lucius, whose joint presence at the front was now deemed necessary, to abandon their winter camp at Aquileia.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • The Marcomannic War was a major revolt of the client peoples (the Chatti, Marcomanni, Quadi, Hermunduri, Iazyges, and Roxolani) along the upper Rhine and Danube.

    145 2001

  • The Marcomannic War, which was a revolt of the client peoples along the Rhine and Danube, signaled the end of diplomacy as an effective and inexpensive method of defending the northern borders.

    f. The Third Century 2001

  • The Vandals, whose original seats were probably in central or eastern Prussia, drifted southward with the general movement of the German barbarians toward the borders of the Empire late in the second century, and, after the Marcomannic War (175 A.D.), settled in

    Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

  • The general convergence of the central German tribes towards the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire during the Marcomannic

    Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

  • Marcomannic war, which seems to have alarmed the whole empire, and the emperor himself, into a paroxysm of returning piety to their gods, of which the Christians were the victims.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • The edict of Marcus Antoninus is supposed to have been the effect of his devotion and gratitude for the miraculous deliverance which he had obtained in the Marcomannic war.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Marcomannic war, which seems to have alarmed the whole empire, and the emperor himself, into a paroxysm of returning piety to their gods, of which the Christians were the victims.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • The Marcomannic war was partly occasioned by the pressure of barbarous tribes, who fled before the arms of more northern barbarians.] [Footnote 23: D'Anville, Geographie Ancienne, and the third part of his incomparable map of Europe.] [Footnote 24: Tacit.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • The Marcomannic war was partly occasioned by the pressure of barbarous tribes, who fled before the arms of more northern barbarians.] 23 D’Anville, Geographie

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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