358 plent'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 Convenae , 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 occupied the department of the Haute-Vienne, and portions of 

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

 the Deiix-Sevres, 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 chief town. 



3 They occupied the modem department of the G-ironde. The city 

 of Bordeaux occupies the site of their chief town. 



* They gave name to Aquitaine, which became corrupted into Guyenne. 

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

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

 wards occupied the site here referred to by him, with Atures for their 

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



* Their locahty is imknown, but it has been suggested that they 

 occupied the departments of the Basses Pyrenees, 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 imite 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." 



7 By Coesar 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. 



8 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 signum or standard. Aquae TarbeUicse was their chief town, the 

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



8 Their chief town was probably gamsoned 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 TarbeUicse or Dax to Burdegala or Bordeaux, 

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

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

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

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



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

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

 He is |ilso of opinion that their town stood on the site of the modem 

 Cioutat, between the rivers Adour and Neste. 



