Onesii
The Onesii were a people of Aquitania, in the region of Bagnères-de-Luchon. They are named by Strabo and, under a corrupt form, by Pliny.[1][2] Their thermal centre, the Aquae Onesiorum at Luchon, belonged to the Convenae.[1]
Name
[edit]They are named by Strabo, who mentions the Aquae Onesiorum ('the waters of the Onesii'),[3][2] and in the list of Aquitanian peoples in Pliny, where the manuscripts give the corrupt form Monesi.[4][1] Following earlier editors, Paul-Marie Duval read Pliny's text as infra quem Onesi(i) and set Monesi aside as a ghost form, since the Onesii are securely placed by the Aquae Onesiorum.[1][2]
The name is obscure. Alexander Falileyev allowed that, were it Celtic, it might belong with onno- ('ash tree').[2]
Geography
[edit]The Onesii lay in the high valleys above Luchon, the Pique and the Oueil, watered by the One and the neste of Oô, which reach the Garonne at Bagnères.[1] In Pliny's list they open the second Aquitanian stretch, beyond the saltus Pyrenaeus, with the Oscidates Montani set between them and the Sibyllates.[1][5] Their chief town Ilixone corresponds to modern Luchon.[6]
References
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[edit]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.
- Falileyev, Alexander (2010). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications.