Ausuciates

The Ausuciates (Gaulish: *Ausuciatis, 'those having big ears') were a small Gallic tribe dwelling between Lake Como and Lake Lugano during the Roman period.

Name

They are mentioned as Ausuciatium on an inscription dated to the early 1st millennium AD and found in Ossuccio.[1][2]

The ethnonym Ausuciates can be derived from the Gaulish root aus(i)- ('ear'), and possibly translated as 'those having big ears'. It can be compared with the Old Irish óach ('with big ears'), from an earlier *ausākos.[3][2]

Geography

The Ausuciates dwelled on the southern shores of Lake Como, around present-day Ossuccio, east of Lake Lugano. Their territory was located north of the Gallianates and Insubres, northeast of the Subinates, east of the Orobii, and south the Aneuniates.[4]

References
  1. CIL 5:5227.
  2. Falileyev 2010, s.v. Ausuciates.
  3. Delamarre 2003, p. 62.
  4. Talbert 2000, Map 19: Raetia, Map 39: Mediolanum.

Bibliography
  • Delamarre, Xavier (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental. Errance. ISBN 9782877723695.
  • 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.
  • Talbert, Richard J. A. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691031699.
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