Sennates

The Sennates were a people of Aquitania, named only in the list of Aquitanian peoples given by Pliny, and otherwise unknown. Their seat is uncertain. They have been placed by conjecture on the middle Garonne, between Bordeaux and Bazas.

Name

They are named once, in Pliny's list of the peoples of Aquitania, among the last of the inland peoples with the Vassei and the Cambolectri Agessinates. The name appears also in the variant forms Ciennates, Ennates and Aennates.

Paul-Marie Duval identify the name with a posting-station of the Bordeaux Itinerary, Senone (also Serione, Sirione), set midway between Bordeaux and Bazas, perhaps at Cérons.

Geography

Duval lists the Sennates among the peoples of Pliny's list that cannot be located with certainty. He proposes to locate them in the north of the region rather than in the mountains. Reasoning from the order of the list, he sets them, with the Vassei and the Cambolectri Agessinates, on the lower or middle Garonne, in the country of the Vasates of Bazas and the Boiates.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Duval 1989, p. 729.
  2. 1 2 Duval 1989, p. 730.
  3. ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 4:108.
  4. ↑ Duval 1989, p. 727.
  5. ↑ Duval 1989, pp. 729, 732.

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.