This interpretation is now generally discarded, as Poseidonios ' narrative makes it more likely that the country some of the Helvetians left in order to join in the raids of the Teutones, Cimbri, and Ambrones was in fact southern Germany and not Switzerland.

His reference to gold washing in rivers has been taken as evidence for an early presence of the Helvetii in the Swiss plateau, with the Emme as being one of the gold-yielding rivers mentioned by Poseidonios.

Another early mentioning of the name, this time by Poseidonios ( writing around 80 BCE ), is also dubious, as it only survives in a quotation by Athenaios ( writing around 190 CE ); the mention of Germani in this context was more likely inserted by Athenaios rather than by Poseidonios himself.

1. 27 ) and the Tigurini ( 1. 12 ), Poseidonios the Tigurini and the Toygenoi ( Τωυγενοί ).

The Greek historian Poseidonios ( ca.

The major source of materials on the Celts of Gaul was Poseidonios of Apamea, whose writings were quoted by Timagenes, Julius Caesar, the Sicilian Greek Diodorus Siculus, and the Greek geographer Strabo.

Posidonius ( Greek: Ποσειδώνιος / Poseidonios, meaning " of Poseidon ") " of Apameia " ( ὁ Ἀπαμεύς ) or " of Rhodes " ( ὁ Ῥόδιος ) ( ca.

* Juergen Malitz, Poseidonios from Grosse Gestalten der griechischen Antike.

* Diodoros or Diodorus from Zeus ( genitive of Zeus is ' dios ') and Jovianus and Giovanni from Jupiter ; Poseidonios from Poseidon ; Athenodoros / Athenodora from Athena and Minervina from Minerva ; Apollodoros / Apollodora and Apollonios from Apollon ; Artemisia and Artemidoros / Artemidora from Artemis ; Aphrodesia from Aphrodite ; Hephaistion from Hephaistos ; Aria from Ares ; Hermione from Hermes ; Heliodoros / a from Helios ; Fortunatus from Fortuna ; Serapion from Serapis and Isidoros or Isidora from Isis.

Ambassador Stevenson yesterday described the U.N.'s problem of electing a temporary successor to the late Dag Hammarskjold as `` the gravest crisis the institution has faced ''.

Two species are described in the literature: A. ramidus, which lived about 4. 4 million years ago during the early Pliocene, and A. kadabba, dated to approximately 5. 6 million years ago ( late Miocene ).

In modern ( late 20th century ) theoretical physics, angular momentum is described using a different formalism.

The events described in the poem take place in the late 5th century, after the Anglo-Saxons had begun their migration to England, and before the beginning of the 7th century, a time when the Anglo-Saxon people were either newly arrived or still in close contact with their Germanic kinsmen in Scandinavia and Northern Germany.

She described in her memoir, Harsh Route ( or Steep Route ), of a case which she was directly involved in during the late 1940s, after she had been moved to the prisoners ' hospital.

Chic's was formed by Nile Rodgers a self described " street hippie " from late 1960s New York and Martin Dow DJ at from Key West, Florida who pioneered the NYC sound across that state.

Overlordship, for either reason, was a central feature of Anglo-Saxon politics ; it is known to have begun before Æthelberht's time, although the details are unknown, and kings were being described as overlords in this sense, as late as the ninth century.

By late 2000s, some deathcore bands described themselves as grindcore.

" All we can say safely ," says Walter Pohl, " is that the name Huns, in late antiquity ( 4th century ), described prestigious ruling groups of steppe warriors.

By the late forties, radio stations broadcast music described as " hillbilly ," originally to describe fiddlers and string bands, but was then used to describe the traditional music of the people of the Appalachian Mountains.

In 1788, 34 years after he had retired from the slave trade, Newton broke a long silence on the subject with the publication of a forceful pamphlet " Thoughts Upon the Slave Trade ", in which he described the horrific conditions of the slave ships during the Middle Passage, and apologized for " a confession, which ... comes too late ...

Archery was described by contemporaries as ineffective against plate armour in the Battle of Neville's Cross ( 1346 ), the siege of Bergerac ( 1345 ), and the Battle of Poitiers ( 1356 ); such armour became available to European knights of fairly modest means by the late 14th century, though never to all soldiers in any army.

In the late 1960s he described his own approach ( along with all of mainstream economics ) as using " Keynesian language and apparatus " yet rejecting its " initial " conclusions.

In the geographers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire, such as Ptolemy, Scythia stretches eastward from the mouth of the Vistula ; thus Pytheas must have described the Germanic coast of the Baltic sea ; if the statement is true, there are no other possibilities.

According to the late 13th century chronicler Martin of Opava, Stephen VIII was described as being a German, who was elected pope due to the power and influence of his royal relative, the German king Otto I. Martin states that Otto ignored the will of the cardinals in imposing Stephen upon them, and because Stephen was hated for being a German, he was taken by supporters of Alberic II, who proceeded to maim and disfigure him to such an extent that Stephen was unable to appear in public again.

An early 20th century depiction of Saint Columba's miracle at the gate of King Bridei I of the Picts | Bridei's fortress, described in Adomnán's late 7th century Vita Columbae

The awards committee described him as the " incessant inventor and perpetual pitchman of late night television " and awarded the prize in recognition of his " redefining the industrial revolution " with his devices.

* The late 8th century BC siege system surrounding the site of Lachish ( Tell el-Duweir ) in Israel, built by Sennacherib of Assyria in 701 BC, is not only evident in the archaeological remains, but is described in Assyrian and biblical sources and in the reliefs of Sennacherib's palace in Nineveh.

For example in the late 18th century, chief William Cleveland had a large " slave town " on the mainland opposite the Banana Islands, whose inhabitants " were employed in cultivating extensive rice fields, described as being some of the largest in Africa at the time ...."

Crusade chronicler William of Tyre, writing in the late 12th century, described sugar as " very necessary for the use and health of mankind ".

The ousting of Khrushchev in 1964 by his former party-state allies has been described as a Stalinist restoration by some, epitomised by the Brezhnev Doctrine and the apparatchik / nomenklatura " stability of cadres ," lasting until the period of glasnost and perestroika in the late 1980s and the fall of the Soviet Union.

The sarati, described in Parma Eldalamberon 13, a script developed by J. R. R. Tolkien in the late 1910s, anticipates many features of the tengwar, especially the vowel representation by diacritics ( which is found in many tengwar varieties ), different tengwar shapes and a few correspondences between sound features and letter shape features ( though inconsistent ).

He was still serving in these capacities as late as 1543 when he described himself as a " minister of the sacred altar in the diocese of St. Andrews, notary by apostolic authority " in a notarial deed dated 27 March.

He also criticised those who believed it was " too late to do anything " and that " there lies the certainty of violence on a scale which can only adequately be described as civil war ".

2nd c. BC ), whose reliability has been positively reevaluated by recent scholarship, described two advanced forms of the gastraphetes, which he credits to Zopyros, an engineer from southern Italy.

2nd c. BC ), whose reliability has been positively reevaluated by recent scholarship, described two advanced forms of the gastraphetes, which he credits to Zopyros, an engineer from southern Italy.

However, it should be noted that variations on this geographic theory would have the epistle written during Paul's 2nd Missionary Journey around 50-52, or during the events described in Acts.

One of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, Leo remains one of the 88 modern constellations today.

However, there were certain characteristics desired in a “ good ” midwife, as described by the physician Soranus of Ephesus in the 2nd century.

As described by Russell in the Preface to the 2nd edition of PM:

Tertullian, writing of the church meetings of the Montanists ( to whom he belonged ), described in detail the practice of prophecy in the 2nd century church.

Primordial Malay kingdoms are described as tributaries to Funan by 2nd century Chinese sources – though most of them proved to be tribal organizations instead of full-fledged kingdoms.

Gladstone's role in the decision to invade was described as relatively hands-off, and that the decision to invade was made by certain members of his cabinet such as Spencer Cavendish, Secretary of State for India, Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, Hugh Childers, Secretary of State for War, and Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, the Foreign Secretary.

The construction of the zodiac is described in Ptolemy's Almagest ( 2nd century AD ).

* Although Philo of Byzantium described the saqiya chain pump in the early 2nd century BC, the square-pallet chain pump was innovated in China during this century, mentioned first by the philosopher Wang Chong around 80 AD.

Although the use of the graduated scale and grid reference for maps was not thoroughly described until the published work of Pei Xiu ( 224 – 271 CE ), there is evidence that in the early 2nd century CE, cartographer Zhang Heng was the first to use scales and grids for maps.

Another Greek, the physician Galen, described strength training exercises using the halteres ( an early form of dumbbell ) in the 2nd century.

Germanic towns are described on the Map of Ptolemaios in the 2nd Century, e. g Coridorgis for Jihlava.

Tertullian, a 2nd century Church Father, described Jesus himself and Paul of Tarsus as spadones, which is translated as " eunuchs " in some contexts.

Findings of Ruphus and Herophilos findings were further propagated by the Greek physician Galen, who described the lacteals and mesenteric lymph nodes which he observed in his dissection of apes and pigs in the 2nd century AD.

A 2nd mirror image reveals a lady's crown held above a simple wooden drinking cup, similar to the Holy Grail as described in Celtic mythology.

The 2nd century BC grammarian Agallis attributed the invention of ball games to Nausicaa, most likely because Nausicaa was the first person in literature to be described playing with a ball.

The only recorded instance of this type of vessel, in fact, is this showpiece galley built for Ptolemy IV, described by Callixenus of Rhodes, writing in the 3rd century BCE, and by Athenaeus in the 2nd century AD.

The ogdoad described by Gnostic Valentinus ( Gnostic ) | Valentinus in the 2nd century AD ( with the first two named Propator and Ennoia )

Timber was described as fir and cedar 2nd class.

Patterns began with the woman stepping forward twice, but described the " Coaster Step " with a forward step as the last step of the 2nd triple.

Another was described by the 2nd Zahid expedition and is 11 meters wide: this may be one of the other three originally described by Philby.