Physical Appearance
Plutarch wrote that the Cimbri were light-blue eyed:
ββThe most prevalent conjecture was that they were some of the German peoples which extended as far as the northern ocean,
a conjecture based on their great stature, their light-blue eyes, and the fact that the Germans call robbers Cimbri.ββ
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