These accounts and others from the period emphasize that the Suevi formed an especially large and powerful group. Tacitus speaks also of a geographical Suevia with two halves, one on either side of the Sudetes. The larger group that the Suevi were part of according to Pliny, the Hermiones, is mentioned in one other source: Pomponius Mela, in his slightly earlier Description of the World, places the farthest people of Germania, the Hermiones somewhere to the east of the Cimbri and the Teutones, apparently on the Baltic. He did not mention Suevians.