Vertamocorii (Cisalpina)

The Vertamocorii (Gaulish: *Uertamocorī) were a Celtic people that lived in Cisalpine Gaul around Novara, in Eastern Piedmont (Italy).

Name

The Gaulish ethnonym Vertamo-corii is generally translated as 'those with the superior host' or 'the excellent troops', from uertamos ('superior; summit') attached to corios ('army').[1][2] Alternately, it could mean 'troops from the summit'.[1]

History

According to Cato, the Vertamocorii who founded Novara were Ligurians, a view rejected by Pliny (1st c. AD), who classifies them as Gauls.[3]

Novara (founded) by the Vertamocorii, that are from the Vocontii, and not, as believed Cato, Ligurians, ...[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Delamarre 2003, p. 317.
  2. ^ de Bernardo Stempel 2006, p. 46.
  3. ^ Barruol 1969, p. 162.
  4. ^ Pliny, Naturalis Historia (III, 124)

Bibliography

  • Barruol, Guy (1969). Les Peuples préromains du Sud-Est de la Gaule: étude de géographie historique (in French). E. de Boccard. OCLC 3279201.
  • de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (2006). "From Ligury to Spain: Unaccented *yo > (y)e in Narbonensic votives ('gaulish' DEKANTEM), Hispanic coins ('iberian' -(sk)en) and some theonyms". Palaeohispanica. 6: 45–58. ISSN 1578-5386.
  • Delamarre, Xavier (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental (in French). Errance. ISBN 978-2877-723-69-5.


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