Ceutrons
The Ceutrons ( Latin Ceutrones ) were a Celtic , possibly even a Celtoligur people in the Alps in the Roman province of Alpes Graiae , which is where the name Ceutronicae Alpes (Ceutronic Alps) comes from.
They tried in 58 BC Chr. Together with the Graiocelern and Caturigern and a year later with the nantuates Caesar to hinder its march through the Alps, were however defeated by this in several battles. According to Pliny the Elder , the ceutrons produced a good cheese, the so-called Vatusicus , and high-quality copper . The capital of the Ceutrons was, according to Claudius Ptolemy in his Geographike Hyphegesis , Axima (Roman name: Forum Claudii Ceutronum ; today: Aime-en-Tarentaise ).
A people in Belgian Gaul with the same name appears at Caesar in connection with the drafting of troops by Ambiorix . They are called the Nervier clientele .
literature
- Karl Ernst Georges: Comprehensive Latin-German concise dictionary . Hannover 1913, 8th edition, (Reprint Darmstadt 1998), Volume 1, Sp. 1104 ( online )
- Max Him : Ceutrones 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2014 f.
Web links
- François Wiblé: Ceutrones . In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 9, 2005 .
Remarks
- ↑ The genitive for this is Ceutronum , accusative Ceutronas .
- ^ Caesar, de bello Gallico 1, 10, 4f.
- ↑ Pliny, Naturalis Historia XCVII, 240th
- ^ Claudius Ptolemy, Geographike Hyphegesis 3, 1.
- ^ Caesar, de bello Gallico 5, 39, 1.