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Writing in AD 79, Pliny the Elder said that the Germanic tribes were members of separate groups of people, suggesting a distinction among them.

He said that the Chauci, Cimbri and Teutoni — the people from the River Ems through Jutland and for some distance inland — were members of a group called Ingaevones ( a " Cimbri " people were also given as members of a different group, and this is likely a different people ).