Complex sentence: The Bateinoi or Batini were a tribe of greater Germany recorded by the ancient scholar Ptolemy, located to the east of the Banochaemae, who were near the upper Elbe.
Split into simpler sentences: The Bateinoi or Batini were a tribe of greater Germany recorded by the ancient scholar Ptolemy. According to Ptolemy they were located to the east of the Banochaemae tribe, who were settled near the upper Elbe.