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Headword:
*sh/nwnes
Adler number: sigma,328
Translated headword: Senones
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The Celts, those known as Germans.
Greek Original:*sh/nwnes: oi( *keltoi/, oi( lego/menoi *germanoi/.
Notes:
cf. under
kappa 1307.
'A Gallic tribe from a parent stock that in Caesar's time inhabited the Seine basin' (T.W. Potter in OCD4 s.v.). For their mention in Greek sources see e.g.
Polybius 2.17.8, 2.19.10, 2.20.1, 2.21.7;
Diodorus Siculus 14.113.3 (with a
*se/nnwnes spelling).
Barrington Atlas map 42 grids D1/E1.
Keywords: definition; geography; historiography
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 9 September 2003@01:10:22.
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