Ausuciates
The Ausuciates (Gaulish: *Ausuciatis, 'those having big ears') were a small Gallic tribe dwelling between Lake Como and Lake Lugano during the Roman period.
Name[]
They are mentioned as Ausuciatium on an inscription dated to the early 1st millennium AD and found in Ossuccio.[1][2]
The ethnonym Ausuciates can be derived from the Gaulish root aus(i)- ('ear'), and possibly translated as 'those having big ears'. It can be compared with the Old Irish óach ('with big ears'), from an earlier *ausākos.[3][2]
Geography[]
The Ausuciates dwelled on the southern shores of Lake Como, around present-day Ossuccio, east of Lake Lugano. Their territory was located north of the and Insubres, northeast of the , east of the Orobii, and south the Aneuniates.[4]
References[]
- ^ CIL 5:5227.
- ^ a b Falileyev 2010, s.v. Ausuciates.
- ^ Delamarre 2003, p. 62.
- ^ Talbert 2000, Map 19: Raetia, Map 39: Mediolanum.
Bibliography[]
- Delamarre, Xavier (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental. Errance. ISBN 9782877723695.
- Falileyev, Alexander (2010). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. CMCS. ISBN 978-0955718236.
- Talbert, Richard J. A. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691031699.
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