Lassunni
The Lassunni or Lassuni were a people of Aquitania, named only in the list of Aquitanian peoples given by Pliny.[1] Their seat is not known, and they have been placed by conjecture in the high Pyrenees.[2] Their name may survive in the place-name Saint-Hilaire-de-Lassun.[3]
Name
[edit]They are named once in Pliny's list of the peoples of Aquitania, among a group of small Pyrenean peoples with the Pinpedunni and the Vellates.[4][1] The name appears also in the variant forms Lassurini and Lassumni.[1] Alfred Holder connected it with the medieval estate Lassunis dicta, the parish of Saint-Hilaire-de-Lassun, recorded in 1010 and 1012 AD.[1]
Geography
[edit]Paul-Marie Duval lists the Lassunni 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.[5] Jean-Pierre Bost counts them among the small mountain peoples integrated into the civitas of the Aquenses, around Dax, during the Augustan reorganisation.[6]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Duval 1989, p. 728.
- ↑ Duval 1989, p. 732.
- ↑ Bost 2009, p. 34.
- ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 4:108.
- ↑ Duval 1989, pp. 727, 732.
- ↑ Bost 2009, pp. 28, 34.
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.