Vellates
The Vellates were a people of Aquitania, named only in the list of Aquitanian peoples given by Pliny. Their seat is unknown. They have been placed by conjecture in the high Pyrenees.
Name
[edit]They are named once in Pliny's list of the peoples of Aquitania, among a group of small Pyrenean peoples that also includes the Lassunni and the Toruates.[1][2] The name appears also in the variant form Suellates.[2]
Geography
[edit]Duval lists the Vellates among the peoples of Pliny's list that cannot be located.[3] On the basis of the order of the list, he argued that they, together with several neighbouring groups, should be sought in the high valleys of the Pyrenees.[4] In his reconstruction, they belonged to the small mountain peoples of what is now the Basque Country, later administered from Dax.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 4:108.
- 1 2 Duval 1989, p. 728.
- ↑ Duval 1989, p. 727.
- ↑ Duval 1989, p. 732.
- ↑ Bost 2009, p. 28.
Primary sources
[edit]- Pliny (1938). Natural History. Loeb Classical Library. Translated by Rackham, H. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674993648.
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Bibliography
[edit]- Bost, Jean-Pierre (2009). L'Empire romain et les sociétés provinciales: recueil d'articles. Scripta Antiqua. Bordeaux: Ausonius. ISBN 978-2-35613-014-3.
- Duval, Paul-Marie (1989) [1955]. "Les peuples de l'Aquitaine d'après la liste de Pline". Travaux sur la Gaule (1946–1986). Publications de l'École française de Rome. Vol. 116. Rome: École française de Rome. pp. 721–737. Originally published in Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes 29 (1955), pp. 214–227.