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CHERUSCI  , an

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ancient
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German tribe occupying the
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basin of the
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Weser to the
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north of the
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Chatti . Together with the other tribes of western
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Germany they submitted to the
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Romans in 11—9 B.C., but in A.D . 9
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Arminius, one of their princes,
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rose in revolt, and defeated and slew the
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Roman
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general Quintilius
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Varna with his whole
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army . Germanicus
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Caesar made several unsuccessful attempts to bring them into subjection again . By the end of the 1st
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century the
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prestige of the Cherusci had declined through unsuccessful warfare with the Chatti . Their territory was eventually occupied by the
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Saxons .
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Tacitus,
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Annals, i . 2, II, 12, 13; Germania, 36;
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Strabo, p . 291 f.; E .
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Devrient, in Neue Jahrb. f. d. klass . Alter . (1900), p .

517 .

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