Adunicates
The Adunicates were a small Gallic tribe dwelling in the upper Durance valley during the Roman era.
Name
[edit | edit source]They are mentioned as Adunicates by Pliny (1st c. AD).[1]
The etymology of the name is unclear. If Celtic, it may be interpreted as a haplology (loss of syllable) of Gaulish *Andedunicates, based on the intensifying prefix ande-. In this view, it could be compared to the personal names Andedunis and Atedunus ('big fort').[2]
Geography
[edit | edit source]The Adunicates lived in the upper Durance valley.[3] They are mentioned by Pliny as living near the Suetrii and the Quariates, north of the Oxybii and Ligauni.[4]
On the coast too are Athenopolis of the Massilians, Fréjus, a colony of the eighth legion, called Pacensis and Classica, a river named Argenteus, the district of the Oxubii and Ligauni, beyond whom come the Suebri, Quariates and Adunicates.
— Pliny 1938, Naturalis Historia, 3.35.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:35.
- ^ Evans 1967, p. 136.
- ^ Barruol 1969, p. 390.
- ^ Rivet 1988, p. 34.
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