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Tribe of  Ligurians between Magra and Serchio in northern Etruria ( Etruscans), today the Apuan Alps and Garfagnana. Defeated after intensive fighting against the Romans (at the latest from 187 BC: Liv. 39,2; 20; 32; 38; 40,1); in 180 BC under the proconsuls P. Cornelius Cethegus and Cn. Baebius Tamphilius 40,000 A. were deported to  Samnium (Ligures Corneliani et Baebiani: Plin. HN 3,105), and a further 7,000 in the same year under the consuls A. Postumius Albinus and Q. Fulvius Flaccus (Liv. 40,41).

Angeli Bertinelli, Maria Gabriella (Genoa)