Elusates

The Elusates were an Aquitani pre-Roman tribe settled in what today is southwestern France, in the northeast of the Aquitaine territory, around the city of Elusa, which is present-day Eauze, in the French department of Gers.[1] They were subdued by Publius Crassus, legatus of Caesar in 56 BCE.[1]

Aquitani tribes at both sides of the Pyrenees.
Coins of the Elusates 5th-1st century BCE.

Name

They are mentioned as Elusates by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC) and Pliny (1st c. AD),[2][3] and as Elusa on the Tabula Peutingeriana (5th c. AD).[4]

The city of Eauze, attested as civitas Elusa in the 4th century AD, is named after the tribe.[5]

See also

References
  1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography Sir William Smith p.822
  2. Caesar. Commentarii de Bello Gallico, 3:27:1
  3. Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 4:108
  4. Falileyev 2010, p. entries 6457 and 6457a.
  5. Nègre 1990, p. 55.

Bibliography
  • 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.
  • Nègre, Ernest (1990). Toponymie générale de la France (in French). Librairie Droz. ISBN 978-2-600-02883-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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