Catti

Catti, or CHATTI, a German people, erroneously included by Cæsar under the name Suevi (see SWABIA), who inhabited a country nearly corresponding to the present Hesse. They took part in the general rising of the Germans under Arminius; and during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, in the end of the 2d century, they made incursions into Roman Germany and Rhætia. In the 3d century their name began to give place to that of the Franks (q.v.).