Insubres

The Insubres , or Insubriens , are Celtic people - powerful at the time of the Punic Wars - Gaulle Cisalpine, whose capital was Mediolanum (Milan). They are surely related with the Ligures. These people are quoted in Cicéron, Tite-Live and Pline; like by the Greek geographer Strabon.

History

With the Boii, Lingons, Taurini, Gesati and other groups Celtic of cis-alpine, Insubres were beaten in -224 or -225 by the Roman Armée carried out by the Consul Lucius Aemilius Papus to the Bataille with Télamon. Two years later the Romans, supported by their Celtic allies Cénomans again beat them with the Bataille of Clastidium. After the defeat of Gesati, in -221, they were constrained to accept the occupation of Milan and alliance with Rome. The Romans benefitted from it for annexed a broad portion from their territory.

During the First Punic War towards -217 Insubres rejoined the Carthaginians of Hannibal Barca. They have again followed the Carthaginians of Hamilcar during the Second Punic War. After several other conflicts, they end up being definitively combined in Rome in -194 by preserving a small autonomy for their capital. In -89, following the social War, they obtains the Latin citizenship and in -49 the Roman Citoyenneté.

The romanisation of Insubres certainly was probably done quickly, thanks to the resemblances between the Celtic one and Latin. The work of Caecilius Statius testifies some.

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Sources

  • Benoist and Goeltzer, French Latin dictionary, Paris, Garnier Brothers, 1893.
  • Georges Edon, dictionary French-Latin, Paris, Bookstore Eugene Belin, 1926

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