858 plint's nattjeal histoet. [Book IV. 



Pictones\ the Santoni^, a free people, the Bituriges^, sur- 

 named Yivisci, the Aquitani^ from whom the province derives 

 its name, the Sediboviates^ the Convense^, who together 

 form one town, the Begerri^, the Tarbelli Quatuorsignani^, 

 the Cocosates Sexsignani^, the Venami^^, the Onobrisates", 



* From them ancient Poitou received its name. They are supposed 

 to have occiipied the department of the Haute- Vienna, and portions of 

 the departments of La "Vendee, the Loire Inferieure, the Maine et Loire, 

 the Deux-Sevi-es, and La Vienne. 



• 2 They gave name to the former Saintonge, now the department of 

 Charente and Charente Inferieure. The town of Saintes occupies the 

 site of their cliief town. 



3 They occupied the modem department of the Gironde. The city 

 of Bordeaux occupies the site of their chief town. 



* They gave name to Aquitame, wliioh became corrupted into Gruyenne. 

 Phny is the only author that makes the Aquitani a distinct people of 

 the province of Aquitanica. The Tarusates are supposed to have after- 

 wards occuj)ied the site here referred to by him, with Atures for theu' 

 cliief town, afterwards called Aire, in the department of the Landes. 



5 Their locahty is unknown, but it has been suggested that they 

 occupied the departments of the Basses Pyi'enees, or Lower Pyrenees. 



^ So called from the Latin verb convenire, "to assemble" or "meet 

 together." They are said to have received this name from the circum- 

 stance that Ptolemy, after the close of the Sertorian war, finding a pas- 

 toral people of predatory habits inhabiting the range of the Pyrenees, 

 ordered them to unite together and form a community in a town or city. 

 From them the present town of Saint Bertrand de Comminges, in the 

 S.W. of the department of the Haute Garonne, derives its Latin name 

 *'Lugdunum Convenarum," 



' By Csesar called the Bigerriones. Their name was preserved in that 

 of the district of Bigorre, now the department of the Hautes-Pyrenees. 

 Their cliief town was Turba, now Tarbes. 



^ By calling the Tarbelli Quatuorsignani, he seems to imply that 

 their cliief town was a place garrisoned by four maniples of soldiers, each 

 ■with a signiim or standard. Aquse Tarbelhcse was their chief town, the 

 modern Acqs or Dax, in the S.W. of the department of the Landes. 



^ Their chief town was probably garrisoned by six signa or maniples. 

 Cocosa, or Coequosa, as it is written in the Antonine Itinerary, is the first 

 place on a road from Aquae Tarbelhcse or Dax to Burdegala or Bordeaux, 

 now called Marensin. Their locality was in the southern part of the 

 department of the Landes, the inhabitants of which are still divided into 

 two classes, the Bouges, those of the north, or of the Tete de Buch ; and 

 the Cousiots, those of the south. ^"^ Their locahty is unknown. 



^' D'Anvillc would read " Onobusates," and thinks that they dwelt in 

 the district called Nebousan, in the department of the Hautes Pyrenees. 

 JTe is also of opinion that tlioir town stood on the site of the modem 

 Cioutat, between the rivers Adour and Neste. 



