[2981] The inhabitants of the district called the Haut Rhin or Higher Rhine.
[2982] The inhabitants of the west of Switzerland.
[2983] Or the “Equestrian Colony,” probably founded by the Roman Equites. It is not known where this colony was situate, but it is suggested by Cluver and Monetus that it may have been on the lake of Geneva, in the vicinity of the modern town of Nyon.
[2984] Littré, in a note, remarks that Rauriaca is a barbarism, and that the reading properly is “Raurica.”
[2985] Spire was their chief city, in the province of the Rhine.
[2986] They are supposed to have occupied Strasbourg, and the greater part of the department of the Lower Rhine.
[2987] They dwelt in the modern Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt; Worms was their chief city.
[2988] That is, nearer the mouths of the Rhine.
[2989] They originally dwelt on the right bank of the Rhine, but were transported across the river by Agrippa in B.C. 37, at their own request, from a wish to escape the attacks of the Suevi.
[2990] Now known as the city of Cologne. It took its name from Agrippina, the wife of Claudius and the mother of Nero, who was born there, and who, as Tacitus says, to show off her power to the allied nations, planted a colony of veteran soldiers in her native city, and gave to it her own name.