- "Istæuones" in his Germania, and
Pliny the Elder, who used the
spelling "
Istuaeones".
Pliny further specified its
meaning by
claiming that the Istvæones lived...
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Elder lists five
Germanic subgroups: the Vandili, the Inguaeones, the
Istuaeones (living near the Rhine), the
Herminones (in the
Germanic interior), and...
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other subdivisions as the
three West
Germanic groups, the Inguaeones,
Istuaeones and Hermiones, and the East
Germanic Vandili. Notably, the
Roman historian...
