Cimbri
noun
a Germanic or Celtic people, supposed to have originated in Jutland, who invaded Gaul and northern Italy, and were destroyed by the Romans in 101 b.c.
Cimbric
-
a word derived from
Cimbri.
Example Sentences
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Before the birth of Christ the peninsula of Denmark was called by the Romans the Cimbric Chersonesus, or Cimbric peninsula.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke
But the spell of the Cimbric victories was potent still, and the captains replied that they would not give up Marius.
From The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History by A.H. Beesley
Some connect it with the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland, which was famous for its herds of bulls.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
Marius celebrated the success of the day in a magnificent triumph, and paraded, among his trophies, a Cimbric king of such a gigantic height, that, notwithstanding his humiliating position, everybody looked up to him.
From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket
These everywhere expelled or subdued the ancient inhabitants of the Celtic and Cimbric original.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
