CIM'BRI. An aneient warlike tribe. which, with the Telltales (q.v.), were the first Germans that forced their way into the 110man territory. N‘e hear of them first in 'Lc. 113, when they moved south through the German forests. joined with other northern tribes, and wandered through Noricum and 11lyricum. The Romans sent against them the consul Papirius Carbo, but he met with a signal defeat at Noreia, and the nnid to Italy was left open to the enemy. Fortu nately for Bane. the Cimbri chose to migrate to the Rhine. Me. which crossed, and proceeded southward to Gaul. By the year 109 they were again on the Roman boundaries. and Junius SilanuS, who was sent against them. also suffered a defeat. Ilis successors were no more fortu nate, and the Romans met with a great disaster at Arausio (Grange) in 105, when they lost. no fewer than 8(000 troops. The news of
this disaster created a panic in Rome. The Constitution was disregarded, and Marius. the general in Africa, was made consul for five years. in the hope that he might crush the invaders. While he was gathering great forces, the hordes of Cimbri and Teutones poured into northern The skillful gen eralship of Narins 110W put an out to their depredations. The Teutones were crushed at Aqua? Sexth• (Aix) in foul (n.c. 1021. and in the following year a fearful battle was fought with the' Cimbri in the Campi Raudii, near Ver cella. (Vercelli), and the entire nomad race was annihilated. The men were killed or captured, and the women slew themselves and their chil dren (u.c. 101). The name Cimbrie Chersonese was given by the ancients to the peninsula of Jut land.