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Sigambri

Sigambri · m

a powerful people of Germany

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Where it lives

De bello Gallico 5 · 0.97/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

Sĭgambri — Lewis & Short

Sĭgambri (also Sĭcambri, Sў-gambri, and Sŭgambri), ōrum, m., = *su/gambroi, Ptol. Dio Cass.; *sou/gambroi, 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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