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Lacetani

The Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century BC

The Lacetani were an ancient Iberian (pre-Roman) people of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania). They are believed to have spoken an Iberian language.[citation needed] There remains some doubt whether their naming is not a corruption of either Laeetani or Iacetani, the names of two neighboring peoples.[1][2]

Strabo, in a fairly refined geographic description, portrays a country that "begins at the foothills of the Pyrenees and then broadens out over the plains and joins the districts round about Ilerda and Osca, that is, the districts which belong to the Ilergetans, not very far from the Iberus... It is beyond Iaccetania, towards the north, that the tribe of the Vasconians is situated," However, he ascribes this country to the Iacetani.[3] Livy described the location as a district at the foot of the Pyrenees, and north of the river Ebro.[4] Pliny the elder listed the people as a tributary of Rome in his geographical description of Hispania Citerior.[5] Ptolemy located some ten towns among those in a territory, of the Lacetani or the Iacetani.[6][7] They include:

The name is mentioned by some Roman period writers. Surviving mentions in Livy begin the context of the early stages of the Second Punic War, first with the Carthaginian occupation of Lacetania by Hannibal, on his way to cross the Pyrenees.[11] Secondly, a battle is described and placed shortly after Scipio Calvus's arrival in Hispania in 215 BCE; it tells that Roman forces defeated a Lacetani rescue force, on its way to a besieged Ausetanian city, after Hasdrubal the Carthaginian instigated the Ilergetes to into rebellion and these two peoples had joined.[12] In the time of Scipio Africanus's commandment in Iberia, the Lacetani are said to have taken part in the rebellion under Indibilis and Mandonius, whom on this point the text presents as Lacetani rather than Ilergetes.[13] Finally Livy writes of their part in the Iberian revolt of 197-195 BCE, and an attack that Cato the elder led on their city with Suessetani auxiliaries on his side. Incidentally, they are described: "The Lacetani, a remote and forest-dwelling race, were kept under arms, partly by their native savageness, partly by their consciousness of having pillaged the allies in sudden raids while the consul and the army were engaged in the campaign in Turdetania."[14] According to Plutarch, the city harbored Roman deserters, who were sentenced to death after the victory (in marked difference from Scipio Africanus's approach), and the battle contributed to the quarrel between the two Romans.[15]

Sallust's Histories has Lacetania as a territory that Pompey claimed to have recovered from Sertorius in 76 BCE.[16] Strabo mentions the country's place in Roman internal wars: Sertorius and Pompey's war, the defeat of Pompey's generals in the Battle of Ilerda in Caesar's Civil War, and later battles of Sextus Pompey and Caesar's generals.[3] Cassius Dio adds that when Sextus Pompey fled from Hispania Baetica after the Battle of Munda, "he first came to Lacetania and concealed himself there. He was pursued, to be sure, but eluded discovery because the natives were kindly disposed to him out of regard for his father’s memory. Later, when Caesar had set out for Italy and only a small army was left in Baetica, Sextus was joined both by the natives and by those who had escaped from the battle; and with them he came again into Baetica, because he thought it a more suitable region in which to carry on war."[17]

Pliny noted it is a region of abundant vines, that allow the production of second-rate wine.[18] Martial in his epigrams also recalled Laletanian or Lacetanian[19] as a kind of cheap wine.[20]

Emil Hübner sought to identify the Lacetani with the Iacetni in most of these references, where the geographic context or progression of the text allows to link it to the mountainous region north of Caesaraugusta. He excepted Livy 21.60-61, as it shows a coastal context that better fit the Laeetani, and was not decided if Laletania (and its wine) should be treated as a separate coastal group or a variation of Laeetani. He noted Theodor Mommsen's view, that the alteration of L and I can reflect a Spanish ll sound.[2]

Guido Barbieri favored the view that all three people existed (and he too was not decided about the Laletani). The name is too widely used to be regarded as a collection of transmission errors. The description of the Lacetani as living at the foot of the Pyrenees, with the Ausetani, Laeetani and Suessetani on their east, the Cerretani on their north, and Ilergetes on their west (across the river Segre), was taken as consistent and complementing across several geographical passages from Livy, Pliny and Strabo. The Iacetani's territory as much farther, still west of the Ilergetes, and fixed around Iacca. Other passages were interpreted as confused in the original texts: Ptolemy's list of cities, of which about seven are tentatively identified, as Lacetanian territories, which Ptolemy must have confusedly ascribed to the Iacetani; Pliny's listing of cities under the conventus of Caesaraugusta and that of Tarraconensis; and since the Laeetani, on the coast, turn out to be adjacent to the Lacetani, Barbieri found the references to the episodes of Pompey and Sextus Pompey as ambiguous in their localization; however, Hannibal's episode agrees with the geographical descriptions, and Cato's has to be assigned to the real Lacetani, too. Finally, the Lacetani may actually be a substituent of the Ilergetes, or at least closely related, which would explain both the double identification of Indibilis and Mandonius, and why Greek geographers did not list them by name.[7]

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References

  1. ^ Public Domain Smith, William, ed. (1857). "Lacetani". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. 2. London: John Murray.
  2. ^ a b Hübner, Emil (1866). "Drei Hispanische Völkerschaften". Hermes. 1 (3): 337–342. ISSN 0018-0777.
  3. ^ a b Strabo, Geographica, 3.4.10 (trans. Jones, Loeb Classical Library, 1923): ᾿Ιακκητανῶν Ἰακκητανοὶ, Ἰακκητανίας.
  4. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita Libri 21.23
  5. ^ Pliny, Natural History, 3.4. Again, the Loeb edition emended the name to Iacetani.
  6. ^ Ptolemy Geographia 2.6.72, reads Akketanoi or Iaketnnoi, but Stückelberger et al note that the Lacetani are probably meant: Stückelberger, Alfred; Grasshoff, Gerd (2017). Klaudios Ptolemaios, Handbuch der Geographie (in German, Ancient Greek, and Latin). Vol. 1. Schwabe. p. 197. ISBN 978-3-7965-3703-5. For an older critical edition see Müller, Karl, ed. (1883). Claudii Ptolemæi: geographia (in Latin and Ancient Greek). Didot. pp. 195-196.
  7. ^ a b c d Barbieri, Guido (1943). "Iaccetani, Lacetani e Laeetani". Athenaeum: Studi di letteratura e Storia dell'antichità. 21: 113–121.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g Public Domain Smith, William, ed. (1857). "Jaccetani". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. 2. London: John Murray.
  9. ^ Sivan, H., S. Keay, R. Mathisen (2019). "Places: 246695 (Tolous)". Pleiades.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 396, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  11. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita Libri 21.23. Here, neither of the initial-L names is actually attested in the manuscripts. The oldest manuscript of Livy's books 21-30 (known in this context as P), starts on a later chapter. Newer manuscripts have the readings Aquitaniam / Aquitanos (per Briscoe, John. Titi Livi Ab urbe condita. Tomus III, Libri XXI-XXV. Clarendon. ISBN 978-0-19-968616-2.; Conway, Robert Seymour; Walters, Charles Flamstead. "XXI.23.2". Titi Livi Ab Urbe condita. Oxford classical texts (1964 ed.). Clarendon.). In 1555 Carlo Sigonio proposed to emend it to Lacetaniam, and all major editions of Livy have followed him, as did Loeb. The case has been laid out by Arnold Drakenborch, who also cited some corrections and minor variations, e.g. Accetaniam: Drakenborch, Arnold (1740). T. Livii Patavini Historiarum ab urbe condita libri, qui supersunt, omnes, cum notis... (in Latin). Vol. 3. p. 395. Hübner 1866 proposed Iacetaniam instead. Compare the relevant folios of three manuscripts: M; N; C.
  12. ^ Livy, 21.60-61, concerning Laeetani (Loeb), Lacetanis(/Laeetanis)..Lacetanos (Manuscripts).
  13. ^ 28.24-29, 28.34, concerning Lacetani (Loeb, which notes however, "Probably Livy means the Laeetani of N.E. Spain in the region of Barcelona.")
  14. ^ Livy, 34.20, concerning Lacetani/Lacetanos.
  15. ^ Plutarch, Lives: Marcus Cato [the elder], 11
  16. ^ Sallust, Histories, [2.82B / 2.98] = "Letter of Gnaeus Pompeius", 2.5 (Loeb Classical Library 1965 edition, pages 416-417)
  17. ^ Cassius Dio: 45.10.1 (Loeb Classical Library, trans. Cary, 1916)
  18. ^ Pliny, Natural History, 14.8
  19. ^ The manuscripts disagree, but Hübner (1866) regarded those with the form Laletania as the better ones.
  20. ^ Martial, Epigrams, 1.26; 1.49; 7.53
  • Ángel Montenegro et alii, Historia de España 2 - colonizaciones y formación de los pueblos prerromanos (1200-218 a.C), Editorial Gredos, Madrid (1989) ISBN 84-249-1386-8


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