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Диодор Сицилийский за 30 лет до н. э. сделал запись о галлах: «…при погребении покойников некоторые бросают в погребальный костер письма, написанные для своих умерших ближних, словно покойные будут читать их» [источник не указан 686 дней]

Спустя 200 лет Апулей отмечал, что «умирающий бедняк должен запастись деньгами на дорогу, потому что, если нет у него случайно в наличии меди, никто не позволит ему испустить дух»[источник не указан 686 дней] Примерно в то же время Корнелий Тацит описал похороны у германцев: «Похороны у них лишены всякой пышности; единственное, что они соблюдают, это — чтобы при сожжении тел знаменитых мужей употреблялись определенные породы деревьев. В пламя костра они не бросают ни одежды, ни благовоний; вместе с умершим предаётся огню только его оружие, иногда также и его конь. Могилу они обкладывают дёрном. У них не принято воздавать умершим почёт сооружением тщательно отделанных и громоздких надгробий, так как, по их представлениям, они слишком тяжелы для покойников. Стенаний и слёз они не затягивают, скорбь и грусть сохраняют надолго. Женщинам приличествует оплакивать, мужчинам — помнить».

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Так, кельты и германцы, предавая земле урны с пеплом своих покойников, располагали их рядами на каком-нибудь общем поле — обычай, который раньше ошибочно приписывали одним лишь славянам.

Вместе с тем, известно, что у готов в начале нашей эры была ингумация. Тацит путал германцев и галлов, относя кельтов кимбров, неметов и трибоков к германцам. К германцам он относил и лугиев, которые, скорее всего были праславянами: Lygii = люди.

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According to Tacitus (Germania 43:3) the Lugii were divided into many tribes ('civitates'), of which he mentions the five most powerful: Harii, Helveconae, Manimi, Helisii and Naharvali. Claudius Ptolemeus mentions the Lugi Omani (Λοῦγοι οἱ Ὀμανοὶ), the Lugi Diduni (Λοῦγοι οἱ Διδοῦνοι) and the Lugi Buri (Λοῦγοι οἱ Βοῦροι) located on or near the upper Vistula in Germania Magna in what is now south Poland (Book 2, Chapter 10, 4th map of Europe). The forms of the names imply that the Lugii of that time were divided into the Omani, the Diduni and the Buri. In Tacitus the Buri are a separate tribe, so it's possible that they entered the Lugian federation a bit later.

The Lugian federation was probably formed long before it was first recorded, in the works of Strabo (Geographica).

According to Strabo the Lugians were 'a great people' and—together with other peoples like Semnones and the otherwise unknown Zumi, Butones, Mugilones and Sibini—were part of a federation subjected to the rule of Marbod, ruler of the Marcomanni with their centre in modern Bohemia 9 BC–19 AD. The next mention of Lugii are the times of the Roman emperor Claudius (41–54). According to the Tacitus's Annales, in 50 'a great multitude' of Lugians allied with Romans took part in the fall of the Vannius' state of the Quadi, located in present Moravia–Slovakia.

The next information about the Lugians comes from Cassius Dio's work Roman History, in which he mentions events of 91–92 during the reign of emperor Domitian. The Lugii allied themselves with the Romans and asked them for help against their western neighbours, the Germanic Suebi tribe. Domitian sent 100 horsemen to support the Lugians. It is not known if these horsemen really arrived at their destination; if they did, it would be the first recorded presence of Roman soldiers on what is now Polish soil.

A Polish record of 1000 year later appears to confirm the alliance with Romans.[3]

The Buri, who according to Ptolemy were part of the Lugians, took an important role during the Marcomannic Wars (166–180): the Romans were forced to organize a separate military campaign against them called 'Expeditio Burica' in 182-183 during the reign of emperor Commodus

The later history of the Lugians is uncertain, but some historians assume that the Lugians can be identified with the 'Longiones' tribe mentioned in Zosimus's New History (Historia Nova), as being defeated by the Emperor Probus in year 279 in the province of Raetia near the Lygis river (usually identified with Lech river in modern Austria and Bavaria). Another mention might be a great people of 'Lupiones-Sarmatae' shown on a Latin map Tabula Peutingeriana generally dated to 2nd-4th century AD.
Ethnic background
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The ethnic affiliation was subject of intense auto/allochtonic debate between German and mostly Polish historians before the Second World War. The former used to claim that the tribe was exclusively Germanic as the latter presented the counterargument that either the tribe was proto-Slavic or at least included proto-Slavic groups.

According to the Slavonic hypotheses, the word Lugi may be a spelling for Slavonic лю΄дїе, meaning people. In modern Serbian, the word луг means "small forest". Thus the word Lugii could indicate "forest people". Serbs have many versions of this word in use today, and all relate to forest, wood and swamp land. There is a possibility that the Lusatian Sorbs, whose land in their own language and in Polish bears the name Łużyce, adjective łużycki, are among their descendants. The term Łużyce/łużycki is possibly akin to Lugii.

Ancient writers simply regarded them to be part of the Germanians, or the settlers in the region of Germania, and were often at a loss whether to include some of the tribes in Germania into so-called the Germanic language speaking peoples.[4] The sub-tribal groups associated with them, such as the Helveconae, the Harii and the Buri, are indeed Germanic.

Today, as the archaeological evidence such as cremation, which was characteristic to Slavs, has accumulated where the tribe are supposed to have settled, others claim that they were a compound tribe, or confederation of tribes of different ethnicity. Most scholars though agree that they could perhaps consist of a mixture of several groups, or take influence from several groups.