The Dulgubnii are Germanic tribe mentioned in Tacitus' Germania (Chapter 34) as being on the east side of the Frisians. They are probably the same as Ptolemy's Doulgoumnioi of the same region (Book 2, Chapter 10), as Ptolemy corrupts the names of the other tribes, but identifiably so. Not much else is known about them. Germania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Roman historian Tacitus, in his Germania, mentioned the Frisians among people he grouped together as the Ingvaeones. ... Claudius Ptolemaeus, given contemporary German styling, in a 16th century engraved book frontispiece Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: ΚλαÏδιος Πτολεμαῖος; c. ...
Long, I pray, may foreign nations persist, if not in loving us, at least in hating one another; for destiny is driving our empire upon its appointed path, and fortune can bestow on us no better gift than discord among our foes.
The Angrivarii and Chamavi have a common frontier on one side with the Dulgubnii, Chasuarii, and other tribes of no special fame, while on the north-west they are succeeded by the Frisii, who comprise a larger section and a smaller section, called respectively the Greater and the Lesser Frisii.
Both sections have the Rhine as a frontier right down to the Ocean, and their settlements also extend round vast lagoons, which have been sailed by Roman fleets.
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