Camponi
The Camponi were a people of Aquitania, named only in the list of Aquitanian peoples given by Pliny.[1] Their seat is uncertain. They have been placed either in the valley of Campan or about Cambo-les-Bains in the western Pyrenees.[1]
Name
[edit]They are named once in Pliny's list of the peoples of Aquitania, after the Sibyllates and before the Bercorcates.[2][1] The manuscript form Camponi is also given as Camboni. Some correct it to Campani, after the valley of Campan in the upper Adour, where a Roman milestone stands. Alfred Holder preferred Camboni, for the Celtic root cambo- ('bend'), pointing rather to Cambo-les-Bains.[1]
Geography
[edit]Paul-Marie Duval places the Camponi among the obscure mountain peoples whose seat cannot be fixed.[1] On the reading Campani they would lie further east, in the valley of Campan, and on the reading Camboni further west, about Cambo-les-Bains.[1] Jean-Pierre Bost sets them, with the other small mountain peoples, in the city of the Aquenses around Dax, and thinks that their name might survive in that of Cambo.[3]
References
[edit]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.