Belendi
The Belendi were a people of Aquitania, named only in the list of Aquitanian peoples given by Pliny, where they stand just before the 'Pyrenean forest' (saltus Pyrenaeus).
Name
[edit]They are named once in Pliny's list of the peoples of Aquitania, between the Onobrisates and the 'Pyrenean forest' (saltus Pyrenaeus).[1][2] The name was long connected with the place-name Belin, on the Leyre southeast of the basin of Arcachon, although this has been rejected in recent scholarship.[3][4]
Geography
[edit]Pliny places the Belendi at the close of his first Aquitanian stretch, by the saltus Pyrenaeus.[2] On the place-name Belin they were long set in the Landes, but Paul-Marie Duval and Jean-Pierre Bost hold rather that they belonged near the Pyrenees, the likeness to Belin being a matter of chance.[3][4] Reasoning from the order of the list, Duval sought them among the peoples of the high Pyrenees.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 4:108.
- 1 2 Duval 1989, p. 725.
- 1 2 Duval 1989, pp. 725–726.
- 1 2 Bost 2009, p. 13.
- ↑ Duval 1989, p. 732.
Primary sources
[edit]- Pliny (1938). Natural History. Loeb Classical Library. Translated by Rackham, H. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674993648.
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Bibliography
[edit]- 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.