Soti (tribe)
The Soti were an ancient Ligurian tribe.
Name
[edit]They are mentioned as Soti by Pliny (1st c. AD).[1]
F. Rubat Borel has proposed to emend Soti to Sotani (based on a confusion of -an- with -iu- by copyists), and identify them with the Stoeni, a tribe from Lake Como.[2]
The name may also be compared with the vinum Sotanum, cultivated in the territory of Vienna (modern Vienne), the capital of the Allobroges.[3][2] Giulia Petracco Sicardi has also compared it with the Aquitanian ethnonym Sotiates.[3]
Geography
[edit]They are listed among the "Ligurians beyond the Alps" (Ligurum celeberrimi ultra Alpes) by Pliny.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:7:47.
- 1 2 3 Borel 2019, pp. 86–87.
- 1 2 Petracco Sicardi & Caprini 1981, p. 73.
- Primary sources
- Pliny (1938). Natural History. Loeb Classical Library. Translated by Rackham, H. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674993648.
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- Bibliography
- Borel, F. Rubat (2019). "Incolae iugi. I popoli delle Alpi occidentali in storici e geografi dell'età di Livio". Preistoria Alpina. 9bis: 81–91.
- Petracco Sicardi, Giulia; Caprini, Rita (1981). Toponomastica storica della Liguria (in Italian). Genoa: Sagep. ISBN 88-7058-023-7.