- Caesar, had
mentioned Suebi but not
Semnones,
being a
powerful tribal group with 100 cantons. The king of the
Semnones Masyas and his
priestess Ganna are...
-
peoples with
their own
names such as the Marcomanni, Quadi, Hermunduri,
Semnones, and Lombards. New
groupings formed later, such as the
Alamanni and Bavarians...
-
Angles (Anglii)
lived beyond (apparently
northeast of) the
Lombards and
Semnones, who
lived near the
River Elbe. The name of the
Angles may have been first...
-
included the Hermunduri, Varisti, and
Quadi along the Danube, and the
Semnones and
Langobardi to
their north.
After a
major defeat to the
Romans in about...
-
Masyos (Gr****: Μάσυος) was a King of the
Semnones (Gr****: Σεμνόνων βασιλεύς) in the 1st century. The
Semnones were a
Germanic tribe, part of the Suebi...
- Mus
march to
Sentinum in Umbria.
Facing a
coalition army of Samnites,
Semnones,
Etruscans and Umbrians, they
order the
propraetors Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus...
-
emphasis on the
Semnones, and
scholars have
suggested that some or all of Tacitus's
information may come from King
Masyas of the
Semnones and/or his high...
- see only with the eye of devotion",
Tacitus describes the
grove of the
Semnones and
refers to a
castum nemus ('chaste grove') in
which the
image of the...
-
regnator omnium deus (god,
ruler of all) was a
deity worshipped by the
Semnones tribe in a
sacred grove.
Comparisons have been made
between this reference...
- both
Celtic (e.g., Lingones, Senones) and
Germanic (e.g., Ingvaeones,
Semnones)
tribal names during the
Roman period. The term
conveys the idea of a "m****...
