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Sĭgambri (also Sĭcambri, Sy-gambri , and Sŭgambri ), ōrum, m., = Σύγαμβροι, Ptol. Dio Cass.; Σούγαμβροι, Strabo,
I.a powerful people of Germany, between the Sieg and the Ruhr, and as far as the Lippe (the mod. Cleve, Berg, and Recklingshausen), Caes. B. G. 4, 16; 4, 18 sq.; 6, 35; Hor. C. 4, 2, 36; 4, 14, 51; Tac. A. 2, 26; 12, 39; Suet. Aug. 21; Mart. Spect. 3, 9.—Hence,
A. Sĭgamber , bra, brum, adj., of or belonging to the Sigambri, Sigambrian: “cohors,Tac. A. 4, 47 fin.Subst.: Sĭgambra , ae, f., a Sigambrian woman, Ov. Am. 1, 14, 49.—
B. Sĭgam-brĭa , ae, f., the country of the Sigambri, Sigambria, Claud. in Eutr. 1, 383.
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    • Caesar, Gallic War, 4.16
    • Tacitus, Annales, 2.26
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    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 21
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