[2552] Amasias.
[2553] The name of this tribe is written variously by different authors. They are supposed to have occupied the lands between the Rhine, the Ems, and the Lippe, but their boundaries were very uncertain, on account of their continual wars.
[2554] This refers to the chain of mountains which, running from the north of Switzerland, traverses Wurtemberg, Franconia, Bohemia, Moravia, and joins Mount Krapak.
[2555] The Hercynian Wood, or Black Forest, was either one or a succession of continuous forests, extending from the banks of the Rhine to the confines of Persia and Bactriana.
[2556] The Suevi occupied a considerable portion of Germany, to the north and east of Bohemia.
[2557] Coldui manuscripts. Kramer agrees with Cluverius in this instance, and we have followed Kramer’s text.
[2558] The Lugii of Tacitus.
[2559] Zeus thinks these were the Burri of Dio Cassius, lxviii. 8. See Zeus, Die Deutschen, &c., p. 126.
[2560] Kramer has Γούτωνας, although the MSS. have Βούτωνας. He is led to this emendation by Cluverius and others. Cluv. Germ. Antiq. lib. iii. c. 34, page 625.
[2561] The Gambrivii of Tacitus, Germ. cap. 2.