TUBANTES
Eth.
TUBANTES or
TUBANTII (Eth.
Τούβαντοι or Eth.
Τουβάττιοι); a German tribe which was allied with the Chernsci, and seems originally to have dwelt between the
Rhine and
Yessel; but in the time of Germanicus they appear in the country south of the
Lippe, that is, the district previously occupied by the Sigambri (
Tac. Ann. 1.51,
13.55, foll.) They seem to have followed the Cherusci still farther to the south-east, as Ptolemy (
2.11.23) places them on the south of the Chatti, near the
Thüringer Wald, between the rivers
Fulda and
Werra (Comp. Tac.
Germ. 36).
In the end we find them again as a member of the confederacy of the Franks. (Nazarius,
Paneg. Const. 18.)
The name Subattii in Strabo (
vii. p.292) is probably only an error of the transcriber, whence Kramer has changed it into
Τουβάττιοι. (Wilhelm.
Germanien, p. 130.)
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