The Adunicates were a small Gallic tribe dwelling in the upper Durance valley during the Roman era.
Name
editThey 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
editThe Adunicates lived in the upper Durance valley.[3] They are mentioned 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- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:35.
- ^ Evans 1967, p. 136.
- ^ Barruol 1969, p. 390.
- ^ Rivet 1988, p. 34.
Primary sources
edit- Pliny (1938). Natural History. Loeb Classical Library. Translated by Rackham, H. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674993648.
Bibliography
edit- Barruol, Guy (1969). Les Peuples préromains du Sud-Est de la Gaule: étude de géographie historique. E. de Boccard. OCLC 3279201.
- Evans, D. Ellis (1967). Gaulish Personal Names: A Study of Some Continental Celtic Formations. Clarendon Press. OCLC 468437906.
- Rivet, A. L. F. (1988). Gallia Narbonensis: With a Chapter on Alpes Maritimae : Southern France in Roman Times. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-5860-2.
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