From Gibbon's "History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire",
vol 1:
"
[Footnote *: The Bastarnae cannot be considered original inhabitants
of Germany Strabo and Tacitus appear to doubt it; Pliny alone calls
them Germans: Ptolemy and Dion treat them as Scythians, a vague
appellation at this period of history; Livy, Plutarch, and Diodorus
Siculus, call them Gauls, and this is the most probable opinion. They
descended from the Gauls who entered Germany under Signoesus. They
are always found associated with other Gaulish tribes, such as the
Boll, the Taurisci, &c., and not to the German tribes. The names of
their chiefs or princes, Chlonix, Chlondicus. Deldon, are not German
names. Those who were settled in the island of Peuce in the Danube,
took the name of Peucini.
"
at:
http://234.greatbooksonline.org/vol1/vol1207.htm
Presumably it was written by the publisher, the Rev. H. H. Milman. I
have not found those names of Bastarnean leaders elsewhere on the
net. I hope the Rev. Milman used reputable sources.
Now, are these names, Chlonix, Chlondicus and Deldon, analysable as
Germanic? It seems tempting to extract a root *chlon- from them (note
the /ch/, presumably /x/). If this is from good old PIE *kl-w- "fame"
(but then, why the -n-?), we would know that Grimm shift had happened
in Bastarnean. Ideas, anyone?
Torsten