Bercorcates
The Bercorcates were a people of Aquitania, named only in the list of Aquitanian peoples given by Pliny.[1] Nothing is known of them. They have been placed by conjecture in the high Pyrenees.[2]
Name
[edit]They are named once in Pliny's list of the peoples of Aquitania, between the Camponi and the Pinpedunni.[3][1] The name appears also in the variant form Bercordates. Paul-Marie Duval holds the people to be wholly unknown, and thought it pointless to connect the name with a Borodates on a Pyrenean inscription, which he took for a personal name.[1]
Geography
[edit]Duval lists the Bercorcates among the peoples of Pliny's list that cannot be located, but holds that they should be sought in the high valleys of the Pyrenees.[4] Jean-Pierre Bost sets them, with the other small mountain peoples, in the city of the Aquenses around Dax.[5]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Duval 1989, p. 728.
- ↑ Duval 1989, p. 732.
- ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 4:108.
- ↑ Duval 1989, pp. 727, 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.