Note 083 The Marcomanni, a colony, who, from the banks of the Rhine, occupied Bohemia and Moravia, had once erected a great and formidable monarchy under their king Maroboduus. Strabo, 1. vii. Vell. Pat. ii. 105. Tacit. Annal. ii. 63.

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Note to Chapter 9 of DECLINE and FALL by Gibbon