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
editThey 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
editPliny 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.