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358 pliky's kattjeal histoet. [Book ly. 
Pictones\ tte Santoni^, a free people, tlie Bituriges', sur- 
named Yivisci, the Aquitani^, from whom the province derives 
its name, the Sediboviates^, the Convense^, v^ho together 
form one town, the Begerri'', the Tarbelli Quatuorsignani^, 
the Cocosates Sexsignani^, the Venami^*^, the Onohrisates^\ 
^ From them ancient Poitou received its name. They are supposed 
to have occupied the department of the Haute-Yienne, and portions of 
the departments of La Yendee, 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 then* chief town. 
3 They occupied the modern department of the Gironde. The city 
of Bordeaux occupies the site of their chief town. 
'* They gave name to Aquitaine, which became corrupted into Gruyenne. 
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." Thgy 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 Graronne, derives its Latin name 
"Lugdunum Convenarum." 
7 By Csesar called the Bigerriones. Their name was preserved in that 
of the district of Bigorre, now the department of the Hautes-Pyrenees. 
Their chief town was Turba, now Tarbes. 
^ By calling the Tarbelli Quatuorsignani, he seems to imply that 
their chief town was a place garrisoned by four maniples of soldiers, each 
with a signum or standard. Aquse TarbelUcse 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 Aquse Tarbelhcse 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" 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'Anville would read " Onobusates," and thinks that they dwelt in 
the district called Nebousan, in the department of the Hautes Pyrenees, 
He is also of opinion that their town stood on the site of the modem 
Cioutat, between the rivers Adour and Neste. 
