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ANGERS (Town) MAINE-CENTRE
Andecavi, a Gallic tribe, who were stirred up to a rising by Julius Sacrovir in the time of Tiberius, A.D. 21. (Tac. Ann. iii. 40.) As Tacitus in this passage couples them with the Turonii or Turones, we may conclude that they are the tribe which Caesar calls Andes (B. G. ii. 35), and which occupied a part of the lower valley of the Loire (Ligeris), on the north bank, west of the Turones. Their position is still more accurately defined by that of their chief town Juliomagus, or Civitas Andecavorum, the modern Angers, in the department of Maize et Loire, on the Mayenne, an affluent of the Loire.
AQUITAINE (Province) FRANCE
Ausci ((Auskioi), also Auscenses, one of the nations of Aquitania who submitted
to Caesar's legatus, P. Crassus, in B.C. 56. Strabo (p. 191) says that they had
the Latinitas at the time when he wrote. Mela (iii. 2) calls the Ausci the most
illustrious of the Aquitanian nations. Their territory was fertile. The position
of the Ausci is determined by that of Auch, or Augusta Auscorum, their chief town;
and their territory may be represented pretty nearly by the French department
of Gers.
Bigerriones, a people of Aquitania, who, among others, surrendered to Crassus, the legatus of Caesar, in B.C. 56. (B. G. iii. 27.) Pliny (iv. 19) calls them Begerri. The name still exists in Bigorre, a part of the old division of Gascogne. It contains part of the high Pyrenees. The capital was Turba, first mentioned in the Notitia, which was afterwards called Tarria, Tarba, and finally Tarbes. The territory of the Bigerriones also contained Aquensis Vicus, now Bagneres.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
CAVAILLON (Town) PROVENCE
Cavares or Cavari (Kaouaroi, Kauaroi), a people of Gallia Narbonensis. Strabo
says that the Volcae on the west bank of the Rhine have the Salyes and Cavari
opposite to them on the east side; and that the name of Cavari was given indeed
to all the barbari in these parts,though they were in fact no longer barbari,
but most of them had adopted the Roman language and way of living, and some had
obtained the Roman citizenship. He says that as a man goes from Massalia (Marseille),
into the interior, he comes to the country of the Salyes, which extends to the
Druentia (Durance); and then having crossed the river at the ferry of Cabellio
(Cavaillon), he enters the country of the Cavari, which extends along the river
to the junction of the Rhone and the Isara (Isere), a distance of 700 stadia.
But the extent which Strabo gives to the Cavari can only be considered correct
by understanding him to comprehend other peoples under this name. The town of
Valentia (Valence), which is south of the Isere, is placed by Ptolemy (ii. 10)
in the country of the Segalauni, the Segovellauni of Pliny (iii. 4). Between the
Segalauni and the Cavari most geographers place the Tricastini; and thus the territory
of the Cavari is limited to the parts about Cavaillon, Avenio (Avignon), and Arausio
(Orange); and perhaps we may add Carpentoracte (Carpentras), though this town
is placed in the territory of the Memini. But Ptolemy, who places the Cavari next
to the Segalauni, assigns to them Acusiorum Colonia, a place otherwise unknown.
Walckenaer endeavours to show, and with some good reason for his opinion, that
the Acusiorum Colonia is Montelimart on the east bank of the Rhone, about half
way between Valence and Orange, and that it is not another form or a corruption
of Acunum, as D'Anville supposes. Accordingly, the Cavari would extend from the
Durance to Montelimart at least. If this is right, the Tricastini are wrongly
placed by D'Anville along the Rhone between the Segalauni and the Cavares; for
they are east of the Segalauni. Pliny (iii. 4), however, places Valentia in the
territory of the Cavares, though it has been proposed to make him say something
else by a different pointing of his text, the result of which is that Valentia
is not placed anywhere, or, if it is, it is placed in the territory of the Allobroges,
which is false.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited Feb 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
EVREUX (Town) NORMANDY,NORTH
LISIEUX (Town) NORMANDY,SOUTH
LYON (Town) RHONE
Segusiani, one of the most important peoples in Gallia Lugdunensis, bounded by the Allobroges on the south, by the Sequani on the east, by the Aedni on the north, and by the Arverni on the west. In their territory was the town of Lugdunum (q.v.), the capital of the modern province ( B. G. i. 10; vii. 64).
MASSALIA (Ancient city) FRANCE
Albici a barbaric people, as Caesar calls them (B.C. i. 34), who inhabited
the mountains above Massilia (Marseille). They were employed on board their vessels
by the Massilienses to oppose Caesar's fleet, which was under the command of D.
Brutus, and they fought bravely in the sea-fight off Massilia, B.C. 49 (Caes.
B.C. i. 57). The name of this people in Strabo is Albieis and Albioikoi (p. 203);
for it does not seem probable that he means two peoples, and if he does mean two
tribes, they are both mountain tribes, and in the same mountain tract. D'Anville
infers that a place called Albiosc, which is about two leagues from Riez, in the
department of Basses Alpes, retains the traces of the name of this people.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
MEAUX (Town) ILE DE FRANCE
POITIERS (Town) VIENNE
Pictones. A people of Aquitanic Gaul, a short distance below the Ligeris (Loire). Their territory corresponds to the modern Poitou. Ptolemy assigns them two capitals, Augustoritum and Limonum, but the former in strictness belonged to the Lemovices. The city of Limonum, the true capital, answers to the modern Poitiers. Strabo gives the name of this people with the short penult, Ptolemy with the long one. The short quantity is followed by Lucan (i. 436). Ammianus Marcellinus uses the form Pictavi (xv. 11).
RIEZ (Town) PROVENCE
Reii Apollinares (Riez), in Gallia Narbonensis. Among the Oppida Latina of Gallia
Narbonensis, or those which had the Latinitas, Pliny (iii. c. 4) enumerates Alebece
Reiorum Apollinarium. The old reading, Alebeceriorum Apollinarium, is a blunder
made by joining two words together, which has been corrected from the better MSS.,
from the inscription COL. REIOR. APOLLINAR., and from the Table, which has Reis
Apollinaris. The place may have taken its name from a temple of Apollo built after
the town became Roman. The name Alebece may be corrupt, or it may be a variation
of the form Albici or Albioeci. As Pliny calls the place an Oppidum Latinum, we
might suppose that it was made a Colonia after his time, but the name Col. Jul.
Aug. Apollinar. Reior., which appears in an inscription, shows it to have been
a colony of Augustus.
Riez is in the arrondissement of Digne in the department of Basses
Alpes. There are four columns standing near the town, which may be the remains
of a temple. The bases and the capitals are marble: the shafts are a very hard
granite, and about 18 feet high. There is also a small circular building consisting
of eight columns resting on a basement, but it has been spoiled by modern hands.
There now stands in it a rectangular altar of one block of white marble, which
bears an inscription to the Mother of the Gods and the Great Goddess. At Riez
there have been discovered an enormous quantity of fragments of granite columns;
and it is said that there have been a circus and a theatre in the town. (Guide
du Voyagyeur, Richard et Hocquart)
This is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited Feb 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
SAINT-QUENTIN (Town) FRANCE
SAINT BERTRAND DE COMMINGES (Town) HAUTE GARONNE
Convenae, a people in Aquitania, near the Pyrenees, and on both sides of the Garumna; a mixed race, which had served under Sertorius, and were settled in Aquitania by Pompey. Near their chief town, Lugdunum, were the warm baths called Aquae Convenarum (Bagneres).
SENLIS (Town) FRANCE
Silvanectes. This name occurs in the Notitia of the Provinces of Gallia, where
the chief town is called Civitas Silvanectium. In the Notit. Imp. the Silvanectes
are placed in Belgica Secunda, but the name there denotes a town, according to
the usage then established of giving to the capital towns the names of their people.
It appears almost certain that the Subanecti of Ptolemy (ii. 9. § 11) is the same
name as Silvanectae or Silvanectes. Ptolemy places the Subanecti east of the Seine,
and makes Ratomagus their capital. But this Ratomagus is conjectured to be the
same as the Augustomagus of the Itin. and of the Table, which is Senlis.
Pliny (iv. c. 17) mentions the Ulmanetes in Gallia Belgica: Suessiones
liberi, Ulmanetes liberi, Tungri. It is possible that this too may be a corrupted
form of Silvanectes, for the modern name Senlis confirms the form Silvanectes,
and the name Ulmanetes is otherwise unknown.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited Feb 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
VIEUX (Town) NORMANDY,SOUTH
Viducasses, a Celtic people in Gallia Lugdunensis. Pliny (iv. 18) mentions them
before the Bodiocasses, who are supposed to be the Baiocasses. Ptolemy (ii. 8.5)
writes the name Ouidoukaisioi or Ouidoukassioi, for we must assume them to be
the Viducasses, though he places the Viducassii next to the Osismii, and the Veneti
between the Viducassii and the Lexovii. But the Viducasses are between the Baiocasses
and the Lexovii. The boundary between the Viducasses and the Baiocasses is indicated
by a name Fins (Fines), which often occurs in French geography.
There is a place named Vieux SW. of Caen, in the department of Calvados,
some distance from the left bank of the river Orne. This place is mentioned in
the titles or muniments of the neighbouring abbey of Fontenai, on the other side
of the Orne, under the name of Videocae or Veocae, of which Vieux is a manifest
corruption, as D'Anville shows, like Tricasses, Trecae, Troies, and Durocasses,
Drocae, Dreux. There is or was a stone preserved in the chateau of Torigni, in
the arrondissement of Saint Lo, in the department of Manche, which contains the
inscription ORDO CIVITATIS VIDVCAS. This marble, which was found at Vieux in 1580,
is said to be the pedestal of a statue placed in the third century of our aera
in honour of T. Sennius Solemnis. In the excavations made at Vieux in 1705 were
found remains of public baths, of an aqueduct, a gymnasium, fragments of columns,
of statues, and a great number of medals of the imperial period, besides other
remains. Inscriptions, of the date A. D 238, found on the spot show that this
city had temples and altars erected to Diana, to Mars, and to Mercury. (Nouveaux
Essais sur la Ville de Caen, par M. L'Abbe Delarue, Caen, 1842, cited by Richard
et Hocquart, Guide du Voyageur)
The name of this old town is unknown, but the remains show that it
was a Roman city, probably built on a Celtic site; and several Roman roads branch
off from it. Some geographers suppose it to be the Araegenus or Araegenue of the
Table, which D'Anville would fix at Bayeux. But the site of Araegenus is doubtful.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited Feb 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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