I thought that Sicambri belonged exclusively to that Frankish Troy-
tradition? Now I found then in a classical source too. Apparent ly,
judging from the hair-knot, they were Suebians?
"
In the reign of Domitian (81-96 CE) the capital was overrun, in the
opinion of some commentators, by non-Roman immigrants, almost
swamping the old Italian element. The courtly poet Martial seizes the
fact to pay a compliment to the Emperor.
Martial (40-103/4 CE): Epigrams, IX.3:
What race is so distant from us, what race is so barbarous, O Caesar,
that from it no spectator is present in your city! The cultivator of
Rhodope [in Thrace] is here from Haemus, sacred to Orpheus. The
Scythian who drinks the blood of his horses is here; he, too, who
quaffs the waters of the Nile nearest their springing; and he also
whose shore is laved by the most distant ocean. The Arabian has
hastened hither; the Sabaeans have hastened; and here the Cilicians
have anointed themselves with their own native perfume. Here come the
Sicambrians with their hair all twisted into a knot, and here the
frizzled Ethiopians. Yet though their speech is all so different,
they all speak together hailing you, O Emperor, as the true father of
your country.
"
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/martial9-3.html
Torsten