Camponi

The Camponi were a people of Aquitania, named only in the list of Aquitanian peoples given by Pliny. Their seat is uncertain. They have been placed either in the valley of Campan or about Cambo-les-Bains in the western Pyrenees.

Name

They are named once in Pliny's list of the peoples of Aquitania, after the Sibyllates and before the Bercorcates. The manuscript form Camponi is also given as Camboni. Some correct it to Campani, after the valley of Campan in the upper Adour, where a Roman milestone stands. Alfred Holder preferred Camboni, for the Celtic root cambo- ('bend'), pointing rather to Cambo-les-Bains.

Geography

Paul-Marie Duval places the Camponi among the obscure mountain peoples whose seat cannot be fixed. On the reading Campani they would lie further east, in the valley of Campan, and on the reading Camboni further west, about Cambo-les-Bains. Jean-Pierre Bost sets them, with the other small mountain peoples, in the city of the Aquenses around Dax, and thinks that their name might survive in that of Cambo.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Duval 1989, p. 728.
  2. ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 4:108.
  3. ↑ Bost 2009, pp. 28, 34.

Primary sources

  • Pliny (1938). Natural History. Loeb Classical Library. Translated by Rackham, H. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674993648. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

Bibliography

  • 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.