Cavares

Tarasque from Noves

The Cavares (also Cavari ) were a Gallic tribe, possibly also an alliance of tribes in the lower Rhone Valley between the mouth of the Durance and that of the Isère . The fortresses of the Cavares are Avennio , Arausio , Cabellio , Valentia and Vienna . Today, the Segallauni , Tricastani , Salluvier , Albici and Vocontier are considered to be neighboring tribes. The Cavares are said to have been romanised in an earlier period.

The word Cauares probably comes from the Gallic and means something like “the heroes; the winners"; it is comparable to the Old Irish caur (“hero; victorious warrior”) and the Welsh cawr “giant; Hero".

In Rome , cavarian ham was a specialty.

The statue of Tarasque from Noves , exhibited in the Musée Calvet in Avignon, is attributed to the Cavares.

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• Strabon , Geography 4 p. 185-186.
• Pomponius Mela , De chorographia 2, 75.
• Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia 3, 36.
• Claudius Ptolemy , Geographike Hyphegesis 2, 10, 8.

literature

• Max Him : Cavares . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, column 1800.

Remarks

1. ↑ Xavier Delamarre: Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise , 3rd ed., Éditions Errance, 2002, p. 112.
2. ↑ Marcus Terentius Varro , de re rustica 2, 4, 10.