Lacetani

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 Laietani or Iacetani, the names of two neighboring peoples.^[1] Ptolemy located the towns of Aeso/Isona (Guissona) and Setelsis/Selensis (Solsona) among those in a territory, of the Lacetani or the Iacetani.^[2]

The name is mentioned in brief by some Roman period writers. Pliny the elder listed the people in his geographical description of Hispania Citerior, and again as a region of abundant vines, that allow the production of second-rate wine.^[3] Martial in an epigram also recalled Laletanian or Lacetanian^[4] as a kind of cheap wine.^[5] Sallust's Histories has it as a territory that Pompey claimed to have recovered from Sertorius in 76 BCE.^[6] Cassius Dio adds that when Sextus Pompey fled from Hispania Baetica, during Caesar's Civil War, he was able to hide in Lacetania as the people there remembered his father Pompey favorably. Mentions by Livy,^[7] and Plutarch are in the context of the Iberian revolt.

References

^ Smith, William, ed. (1857). "Lacetani". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. 2. London: John Murray.
^ 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 and Ancient Greek). Vol. 1. Schwabe. p. 197. ISBN 978-3-7965-3703-5.
^ Pliny, Natural History, 3.4; 14.8
^ The manuscripts diverge.
^ Martial, Epigrams, 1.26; 1.49
^ Sallust, Histories, [2.82B / 2.98] = "Letter of Gnaeus Pompeius", 2.5 (Loeb Classical Library 1965 edition, pages 416-417)
^ Livy, Ab urbe condita Libri 21.23, and other sections

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[1] Smith, William, ed. (1857). "Lacetani". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. 2. London: John Murray.

[2] 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 and Ancient Greek). Vol. 1. Schwabe. p. 197. ISBN 978-3-7965-3703-5.

[3] Pliny, Natural History, 3.4; 14.8

[4] The manuscripts diverge.

[5] Martial, Epigrams, 1.26; 1.49

[6] Sallust, Histories, [2.82B / 2.98] = "Letter of Gnaeus Pompeius", 2.5 (Loeb Classical Library 1965 edition, pages 416-417)

[7] Livy, Ab urbe condita Libri 21.23, and other sections

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