rched back through Gaul, which they overran as far
as the Seine, where the Belgae made a stout resistance. Near Rouen the
Cimbri were reinforced by the Teutoni and two cantons of the Helvetii.
Thereupon the host marched southwards by two routes, the Cimbri moving
on the left towards the passes of the Eastern Alps, while the newly
arrived Teutoni and their allies made for the western gates of Italy. In
102 B.C. the Teutoni and Ambrones were totally defeated at Aquae Sextiae
by Marius, while the Cimbri succeeded in passing the Alps and driving Q.
Lutatius Catulus across the Adige and Po. In 101 Marius overthrew them
on the Raudine Plain near Vercellae. Their king Boiorix was killed and
the whole army destroyed. The Cimbri were the first in the long line of
the Teutonic invaders of Italy.

The original home of the Cimbri has been much disputed. It is recorded
in the _Monumentum Ancyranum_ that a Roman fleet sailing eastwards from
the mouth of the Rhine (_c._ A.D. 5) received at the farthest point
reached the submission of a people called Cimbri, who sent an embassy to
Augustus. Several early writers agree in saying that the Cimbri occupied
a peninsula, and in the map of Ptolemy Jutland appears as the Cimbric
Chersonese. As Ptolemy seems to have regarded the district north of the
Liimfjord (Limfjord) as a group of islands, the territory of the Cimbri,
the northernmost tribe of the peninsula, would be included in the modern
county (_Amt_) of 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 _Monumenlum 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.). Strabo and other early
writers relate a number of curious facts concerning the customs of the
Cimbri, which are of great interest as the earliest records of the
manner of life of the Teutonic nations.

SOURCES.--Livy, _Epitome_, lxvii., lxviii.; _Monumenlum Ancyranum_;
Pomponius Mela iii. 3; C. Plinius Secundus, _Nat. Hist._ iv. cap. 13
and 14, Sec.Sec. 95 ff.; Strabo p. 292 ff.; Plutarch, _Marius. passim_;
Florus iii. 3; Ptolemy ii. 11. 11 f. (F. G. M. B.)

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