Name given to a people from the eastern, Venetian part of the Po plain who withdrew to the mountainous interior of the country when the Veneti came from the east (cf. the Paphlagonian immigrants in Liv. 1,1,2f.). There they mixed with the Raeti and later were frequently confused with them [1. 486f.; 3. 101f.]. Cato (HRR fr. 41) mentions 34 oppida of the E., among these the Camunni, Trumplini and Stoeni (uncertain), while for others the Camunni were Raeti (Str. 4,6,8) and the Stoeni were Ligures (Acta Triumphalia for the year 637; Str. 4,6,6; Steph. Byz. s.v. Στουῖνος). Ve…
Euganei(201 words)
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Sartori, Antonio (Milan), “Euganei”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 11 April 2021 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e404580>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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