SUARDONES
Eth.
SUARDONES a tribe of the Suevi in Northern Germany, on the right bank of the Albis, south of the Saxones, and north of the Langobardi. (Tac.
Germ. 40.) Zeuss (
Die Deutschen, p. 154), deriving their name from
suard or
sward (a sword), regards it as identical with that of the Pharodini, mentioned by Ptolemy (
2.11.13) as living in nearly the same part of Germany.
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