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teutons
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Teuton \Teu"ton\, n.; pl. E. Teutons , L. Teutones . [L. Teutones, Teutoni, the name of a Germanic people, probably akin to E. Dutch. Cf. Dutch .] One of an ancient German tribe; later, a name applied to any member of the Germanic race in Europe; now used ...
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The Teutons ( Latin : Teutones , Teutoni ) were a Germanic tribe or Celtic tribe mentioned by Greek and Roman authors, notably Strabo and Marcus Velleius Paterculus . According to a map by Ptolemy , they originally lived in Jutland , which is in agreement ...
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Marius, the victor in a great battle at the foot of the Alps when the Teutons and the Cimbri had been annihilated, was the popular hero of the disinherited freemen.
Soon the Christian missionary became a power in the savage regions of the Teutons and the Franks.
These good men were too busy educating the heathen Teutons to bother about the distant Slavs.
In this legend Celts and Teutons are primeval and immutable creatures, like a triceratops and a stegosaurus (bigger than a rhinoceros and more pugnacious, as popular palaeontologists depict them), fixed not only in shape but in innate and mutual hostility, and endowed even in the mists of antiquity, as ever since, with the peculiarities of mind and temper which can be still observed in the Irish or the Welsh on the one hand and the English on the other: the wild incalculable poetic Celt, full of vague and misty imaginations, and the Saxon, solid and practical when not under the influence of beer.
They noted that, though the shock of the gworl’s escape had sobered the Teutons somewhat, they were still very drunk.
They noted that, though the shock of the gworl's escape had sobered the Teutons somewhat, they were still very drunk.
Should another war come, Germany will be expected to stand by her allies, who are, nevertheless, still scared of the Teutons, and any proposal for a German rearmament remains anathema for them.