Charudes is the scholarly Latinization of an ethnic identity known in Ptolemy as the Charoudes. They are stated (Book 2, Chapter 10) to have lived on the east side of the Cimbric Chersonese, Ptolemy's term for Jutland. People of classical times The Charoudes are believed to be the home population of an earlier unit of 24,000 military Harudes, who crossed the Rhine under the command of Ariovistus (Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, 31, 37 and 51), but no evidence connects the two. In Caesar, Ariovi… (More on Charudes)